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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1175692" data-attributes="member: 151">Actually, in many ways, I think it's gotten better in the last year, in particular.  The Adventure Path series is being recieved to generally very good reviews, myself included.  Dragon is using a much tighter focus now, for good or ill, but I think you should ask yourself, is the content poorer, or do you just find less of a need for it, now that you're fully familiar with 3e?  In the first few months of 3e, it was a big help to the game...then came the theme months, which I didn't like, generally.   I suspect, from your description, you really don't want more rules content, you want more setting content, which would mean that a good chunk of WotC's output for the last three years isn't of much value to you.  That's not poorer content, it's less satisfying or useful to you, personally.  I think Savage Species, for example, is a very solid book, much better than I anticipated.  I think, the splatbooks generally got better, not worse, over time.  I think that the BoVD is a generally good, if not bland, book.  I think Manual of the Planes is the pinnacle of well-written books, but that doesn't show a decline in quality, as there were supplements immediately before and after that I thought weren't nearly as good. 3.5 has allowed me to remove the few house rules I had (four), and the 3.5  errata has removed the one new one I had added.  And, as I've mentioned before elsewhere on the boards, if not for those bean counters, we'd have another TSR meltdown on our hands.   If you're looking for me to argue that you should continue a Dragon subscription, you'll be waiting a while.  It sounds like you haven't enjoyed the content for a while...so there's no reason to renew, IMHO.</blockquote>

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