[UPDATED] Dragon+: An Official D&D iOS App

Dragon Magazine on iOS

apparently some folks are finding this in the iOS news stand app...I'm still investigating so in the meantime...I'm just going to put this here

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[Bacon Bits]

As someone who monetizes user data as my full-time job, I'm actually okay with giving Wizards my info.

I'm still very skeptical. WotC very nearly pulled a bait-and-switch with D&D Insider in 4e with how much it changed so quickly.

I also got burned but WotC (or whatever 3rd party they paid to do payments). When I finally cancelled my subscription, they didn't stop charging me. I noticed about 2 months after I cancelled. They charged me twice more in spite of promises that it had been fixed and in spite of the fact that I couldn't access Insider content anymore. In the end, I had my bank issue me a new debit card and terminated the old one so they wouldn't be able to charge me any longer. That was a good idea, because a month later I got an email from WotC that my automated payment had been declined and I'd need to log in an update my credit card info to keep my subscription.

It will probably be a long time before I pay WotC any money through any online subscription service.

 

[practicalm]

Finally had time to read it and I think the formatting is terrible and the content isn't that interesting to me. I'll keep looking at it hoping to improve but trying to read the material was annoying. The idea that there was text as part of the body of the article and then the same text larger in a styled font was completely stupid formatting for this type of small screen experience.

Maybe there is something I might be interested in but I have to fight the formatting to find it.

 

[Larac]

Not sure.
Do like the Android makes that clear upfront.

 

[MartyW]

Not exactly up to par with Dragon Magazines of the past...

So, I read through the entire thing today and I'm not very impressed... Lot of advertorial content.

Full review here:
http://ragingowlbear.blogspot.com/2015/05/dragon-issue-1-exactly-what-were-not.html

 

[CapnZapp]

How do you get this onto your Windows PC?

Reading rpg material on my 5" phone screen? No thanks.

 

[CapnZapp]

People have been asking for more digital content, and yes I know this is not quite what people asked for, but here is digital content support from WotC. And so the haters, of course just give negative comments. But give it time people this is a step in the right dirrection for WotC.

If WotC is moving away from allowing me to read my D&D content on my laptop and print out anything I so desire, then this THE FRAKKIN WRONG DIRECTION.

There can be more than one kind of complaint, you know.

This isn't about complaining about free stuff.

This is about letting the community know that trying to wrest control out of DMs' hands is a disastrous decision.

If all the free stuff will be easily accessible from the WotC site, I have no complaints. Even if the actual content is poor, it's free, and so I have no issues.

But try to force people to read your content on closed apps (where copy, save, print isn't available) and go to hell. I certainly won't stand for being forced to use my phone to read up on D&D content.

Thank you.

 

[Hussar]

How do you get this onto your Windows PC?

Reading rpg material on my 5" phone screen? No thanks.

Funnily enough, I'm reading your comments on an iPhone right now.

The magazine is very easily readable on an iPhone. The formatting is excellent. Single column, easy to read font. Good contrast. No problems. Heck, I had a harder time reading print Dragon articles sometimes. Whoever thought tiny print on a pea green background was a good idea should be shot.

Thing is, no one is asking you to read this. It's there for someone like me who hasn't read a dead tree product in years. I couldn't give a crap about printing. If your player doesn't have a phone of his own, pass him yours. Good grief, how portable do you want?

Taking away from the DM? Nothing at all is being taken from you.

Sigh, yet another fantastic thing pissed all over by the same old relentless negativity. Give it a rest. Please.

 

[Shasarak]

So, I read through the entire thing today and I'm not very impressed... Lot of advertorial content.

Full review here:
http://ragingowlbear.blogspot.com/2015/05/dragon-issue-1-exactly-what-were-not.html

I laughed at your final grade and thought "well, at least they polished it up real nice!"

I hope we will get a bit more crunch to go with our advertisements next issue.

 

[Kramodlog]

Just to clarify this one, they ask for:

Name
Email
Postal Code.

And you don't actually have to give it. You can say no, and you still get the app.

Nice.

 

[Hussar]

Honestly, I don't think Dragon is where you're going to see a lot of crunch. Look at the Unearthed Arcana articles and whatnot we've already got. It's more play testing and feedback and back and forth before you get anything remotely like a finalised product. Although, that said, maybe we will see the finalised stuff in Dragon. Go back and forth on, say, the Artificer, get the play testing and whatnot out of the way, polish it up and put it in Dragon.

That might work.