Things I dislike about Dragon Mag.

[Mallus]

Re: Re: Pardon me for chiming in...

Nope.

Suddenly I feel very old. I still remember the glowing review the Dragon gave to Bard's Tale 2, or was that Bard's Tale 1??? {the memory is the first to go...}

 

[EricNoah]

Re: Re: Re: Pardon me for chiming in...

Suddenly I feel very old. I still remember the glowing review the Dragon gave to Bard's Tale 2, or was that Bard's Tale 1??? {the memory is the first to go...}

It's just as well. With their "months in advance" planning for articles, you wouldn't get very timely reviews. I think this is another area (like the old Forum section) that has been taken over and improved upon by the Internet.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

I don't know anyone that reads a magazine cover to cover with the same gusto throughout.

I do that with "Illustration" magazine, but that's the only one.

 

[robaustin]

Their fulfillment house blows chuncks on the customer service side.


Aaron.

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed this!!!!

It takes forever to get a subscription started. Even when the circ. director at Paizo asks the folks at their fulfillment house to do something, they do not do it.

It took 3 months to get my subscription started after I got it as a gift sub. Pierce Watters - their circ. director ASSURED me it wll start with 306, but that 305 would be mailed to me by their fulfillment company once they got their supplies. Well Pierce was kind enough to send me an issue personally, and I got that issue, and 305 from the fulfillment company is no where to be found. It is obvious their fulfillment company does NOT care about their customers.

I'll be watching anxiously to see if I get 306......they say I am in the computer to get it. Ugh....

--*Rob

 

[tburdett]

Replace half of the pages alloted to fiction with advertisements (which the fiction seems to be already) and the other half with something useful. The fiction isn't useful or interesting.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

I was never too partial to the fiction sections of the magazine myself (I haven't looked at the mag since about issue #250), but I have to take the (apparently) minority position with KDLadage. I've probably got about 200 issues, and there are only a few that I've read the fiction in. I was always of the opinion that Dragon should just publish an annual compilation of the 12 stories that are taking up valuable space in an otherwise excellent magazine.

I felt the same about the Computer Review section when it was in there ... (is it still there?). I did like the RPG Review section though, it did introduce me to Call of Cthulhu . I think the only fiction that should be in the magazine (aside from editorials and WOTC reviews of course), should be game fluff full of ideas, plot hooks and stuff that could be used in any campaign. "The Ecology of ..." articles were the best examples of this stuff. They inspired many sessions that I've run, and I still refer to them (when I'm not too lazy to hunt through boxes for what seems like hours).

That said (and rather poorly at that), I liked the rest of the magazine. There was so much good stuff that it more than made up for the fiction piece in each issue. Oh yeah, did I mention it introduced me to Call of Cthulhu .