[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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[Coredump]

I certainly won't stand for being forced to use my phone to read up on D&D content.

Thank you.

Oddly enough, I have yet to hear of the WotC SWAT team breaking into people homes and forcing them to read content on their phones.

Maybe this is meant as an *option* that people can utilize if they want to.....

 

[fjw70]

Oddly enough, I have yet to hear of the WotC SWAT team breaking into people homes . . .

Really? I have had to fight those buggers off two or three times.

 

[darjr]

Uh... OK. It isn't Dragon in it's heyday, no. But it is kinda neat. For instance there is art for the trinkets that I can't find anywhere else. The article about elemental evil is very interesting and when it talks about the monsters also has the stats, which are also from the downloadable PDF. The travelloge is really cool. Spoilery, a bit, but as the DM of that mod it was very interesting and informative, I'm going to steal some of it for my game. And none of the tracking stuff was required, and it looks like there is a later opt out.

Not the height of Dragon, no, not close, but not terrible either.

 

[Morrus]

I certainly won't stand for being forced to use my phone to read up on D&D content.

Thank you.

Forced?

 

[seebs]

Forced?

I was under the impression that your options were:

1. Use this app on an android or iOS device.
2. Don't read the content.

That seems to match "forced to use the phone to read up on D&D content", in the sense of "if you wish to read this content, you must use the device". Seems weird to me.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Which reminds me. Am I the only one that is annoyed that we didn't hear about this until it's out? Why not let us know what's coming ? Is the whiplash from something being cancelled that bad that we can't get information on what to look forward to anymore? There has to be a middle ground between "we have nothing to talk about" and "We cancelled that thing we told you about last year."

What would you have gained if you were told last month "An app for your phone is coming out for D&D"? Nothing. You wouldn't have gotten anything useful by receiving that information. What would have happened would be that we would have had a month of endless speculation about what this app was going to be... and then once it was released, the caterwauling from everyone who didn't get what they spent an entire month speculating on would have been 20 times worse than the few people complaining right now that are kinda irritated with what the app is.

That's exactly why they don't say anything anymore. Because people can't help taking any tiny shred of info WotC puts out and blow it completely out of proportion... and then when reality isn't even close to the fantasy in someone's head... they spend their time making endless threads over here complaining about it.

If you can't actually DO anything with information given to you, getting it early doesn't actually accomplish anything except get your hopes up.

 

[Bacon Bits]

I was under the impression that your options were:

1. Use this app on an android or iOS device.
2. Don't read the content.

That seems to match "forced to use the phone to read up on D&D content", in the sense of "if you wish to read this content, you must use the device". Seems weird to me.

Or, you know, a tablet.

 

[redrick]

I was under the impression that your options were:

1. Use this app on an android or iOS device.
2. Don't read the content.

That seems to match "forced to use the phone to read up on D&D content", in the sense of "if you wish to read this content, you must use the device". Seems weird to me.

Well, the good news here is that the content in question isn't something that most DMs or players are going to miss. The meaty content that Wizards is putting out is being released on their website. (Unearthed Arcana, Sage Advice, etc.) Folks might enjoy reading the content, but I don't think you will ever sit down at a table and have somebody say, "oh, you didn't read This Article from Dragon+?" At least not based on what we've seen from the first issue.

Now, personally, I hope Wizards finds a way to make this content available on desktops and their web content more accessible to mobile users. The last time I tried to read one of their web columns on my phone, whole portions of the text were cropped and the page could not be scrolled or zoomed out. (I just tested this was the latest Jeremy Crawford article and had the same problem.) For folks like me who do most of their reading during their commute, this makes it hard to read a lot of that (far more useful) content. Sure, I can print it out and bring it to my game, but it's not like I'm going to read it for the first time at the table.

 

[Morrus]

I was under the impression that your options were:

1. Use this app on an android or iOS device.
2. Don't read the content.

That seems to match "forced to use the phone to read up on D&D content", in the sense of "if you wish to read this content, you must use the device". Seems weird to me.

So if it's in a magazine you're "forced to" buy a magazine, and if it's on the website, you're "forced to" use a computer, and if it's a YouTube video you're "forced to" use YouTube?

Sure, OK. Deliberately emotive language is deliberately emotive, but, sure, in this world content is often provided on different platforms, and this is not unusual, arduous, or problematic.

 

[Jacqual]

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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Yes it is in the iOS newstand app as Dragon+ is a magazine subscription, there is a subscribe feature and it indicates that there is no cost to subscribe to Dragon+ at the finish to the subscription sequence.