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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7988561" data-attributes="member: 18">Right? I mean, later Dragon is nowhere near as wild and wonderful as earlier Dragon (and this was very late, from my perspective), but it was fantastic to have content like this coming out EVERY MONTH. I mean it seems almost unimaginable now, right? And in a big glossy magazine you could lay around and read? Even digital stuff isn't remotely giving you that sort of content/month, not in a collected, well-edited, presentable format. I'm sure if one follows a few blogs and reads a few reddits, one can collect as much material, technically, and perhaps even of the same standard, but it's just not the same, to go around gathering up bits and bobs, as it was to receive a big honking magazine you could read on the soft or whatever.I got so many good ideas from Dragon and Dungeon back in the day (and saw quite a few bad ones that made me go &quot;Well now I know I definitely do not want to do that!&quot;, too!), and there was so much fantastic art. Which is the one thing D&amp;D is bizarrely missing today - fantastic art. It's not like there isn't tons and tons of it out there. WotC themselves put out insane amounts of fantastic art via MtG, but D&amp;D art for 5E just isn't great, as a whole, I think I've discussed this before, despite the odd good piece. Dragon had a lot of bad art, but it also had a lot of really good stuff, really inspiring stuff, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 7988561, member: 18"] Right? I mean, later Dragon is nowhere near as wild and wonderful as earlier Dragon (and this was very late, from my perspective), but it was fantastic to have content like this coming out EVERY MONTH. I mean it seems almost unimaginable now, right? And in a big glossy magazine you could lay around and read? Even digital stuff isn't remotely giving you that sort of content/month, not in a collected, well-edited, presentable format. I'm sure if one follows a few blogs and reads a few reddits, one can collect as much material, technically, and perhaps even of the same standard, but it's just not the same, to go around gathering up bits and bobs, as it was to receive a big honking magazine you could read on the soft or whatever. I got so many good ideas from Dragon and Dungeon back in the day (and saw quite a few bad ones that made me go "Well now I know I definitely do not want to do that!", too!), and there was so much fantastic art. Which is the one thing D&D is bizarrely missing today - fantastic art. It's not like there isn't tons and tons of it out there. WotC themselves put out insane amounts of fantastic art via MtG, but D&D art for 5E just isn't great, as a whole, I think I've discussed this before, despite the odd good piece. Dragon had a lot of bad art, but it also had a lot of really good stuff, really inspiring stuff, too. [/QUOTE]

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