What Should Dragon Do?

[JoeGKushner]

Dragon online isn't quite as useful as Dungeon has been. Lack of updates, lack of crunch, whatever.

Some has posted that it's because WoTC is understaffed. others that due to the nature of 4e, they can't really provide the crunch.

How about making it useful for those who still play the game by compiling, updating, and elimianting redundances in feats and prestige classes. We'll never get a print version of those books. Real use for real players right now. Since much of the material should be in digital form somewhere, it shouldn't be as resource instensive as some of the other projects they could do.[/

 

[Quartz]

I'd like to see it back in print.

 

[Mark]

Dragon online isn't quite as useful as Dungeon has been. Lack of updates, lack of crunch, whatever.

Some has posted that it's because WoTC is understaffed. others that due to the nature of 4e, they can't really provide the crunch.

How about making it useful for those who still play the game by compiling, updating, and elimianting redundances in feats and prestige classes. We'll never get a print version of those books. Real use for real players right now. Since much of the material should be in digital form somewhere, it shouldn't be as resource instensive as some of the other projects they could do.

Until 4E is out, they should use it as an outlet for ideas that never made it into books and homebrewed stuff from the designers on staff.

 

[BOZ]

I'd like to see it back in print.

same here. i haven't really even been keeping up with it at all. what sort of things have been featured so far? i read the Graz'zt Demonomicon, but i think that's about the only thing I have seen.

 

[delericho]

Actually, if they're short-staffed, there might be some mileage in them simply dropping Dragon coverage for a few months, and focussing on e-Dungeon, which seems to have been better-received (certainly, it has impressed me more).

Better one really strong e-magazine than two mediocre or poor ones.

 

[Khairn]

How about making it useful for those who still play the game by compiling, updating, and elimianting redundances in feats and prestige classes. We'll never get a print version of those books. Real use for real players right now. Since much of the material should be in digital form somewhere, it shouldn't be as resource instensive as some of the other projects they could do.[/

If you take into account the debacle of first edition of E-Drag and the change to bi-monthly "issues", you can see how much of a priority is placed on the current E-Drag. Even though thta is a great idea, I don't think WotC is willing to expend the resources required to make the last couple of 3E Dragon's anything more than a placeholder.

 

[Dog Moon]

Until 4E is out, they should use it as an outlet for ideas that never made it into books and homebrewed stuff from the designers on staff.

I think this would be neat.

 

[DaveMage]

Actually, if they're short-staffed, there might be some mileage in them simply dropping Dragon coverage for a few months, and focussing on e-Dungeon, which seems to have been better-received (certainly, it has impressed me more).

Better one really strong e-magazine than two mediocre or poor ones.

This.

Or I'd say shut 'em both down until after 4E's debut.

 

[Odhanan]

What should Dragon do?[/

Die a swift death to be then licensed to a publisher who has the staff, competence and interest to produce a high quality print magazine?

 

[sckeener]

What is really telling to me is....

I've been busy from October until now and I don't see my project load (work & home) decreasing until February. During this entire time, I haven't checked WotC's Dragon/Dungeon sites. I had no clue even if they had published new material since October. I haven't missed them either. If I hadn't seen this thread, I doubt I would have checked them at all until after February.

This is coming from a person who lunches the Wotc site automatically multiple times a day!

I never brushed off the paper versions Dragon or Dungeon for this long.

Maybe it is because I am busy...but I think it is because there is now an additional step for me to look at the articles. I have to download and print them if I want them to be available to me all the time. I use to read them...in the bathroom...on a bus...while waiting for others...etc. The only time I used a computer to read a Dragon or Dungeon was when I was referencing something....not reading it...referencing it.

I think they have made a big mistake with E-dragon/dungeon.

I think they would be better served giving it back to the people that know how to run it.