Olive
Explorer
I have to agree, I didn't find much of use in the recent anniversary issue, especially compared to the absolutely marvelous Dungeon issue that came out for the 30th anniversary.
Actually I've been feeling a bit burned out on Dragon lately, what with Dark Sun and this one, but the next few look cool (planes and some Al-Quadim stuff), so I'm happy.
I hope that some of the classic articles from ages past get re-worked soon. I got the archive CD-Rom,a nd there's some cool things there. But to be honest, If they were writen today, for today's audience with today's rule set, then they'd be better.
More than that however, there's a problem with magazines: any mag that stays true to it's vision will eventually burn out it's readers. I've found it time and time again, it's not the magazien that gets boring, it's that it's no longer frech. So they try to make it fresh, and guess what? The readers complain it's changed.
Combined with the fact that the things that Dragon is for (new rules etc), gets serviced by specific books that people are interested in the specific topic will buy (and this is all made worse by the OGL), and it's a difficult job being a magazine editor these days.
Edit: However, having juest been looking at the archive CD-ROM, I have noticed one thing. The articles (especially the ecology ones) used to weave fiction and rules stuff much more effectively. This made for good reading, which would inspire the game, and I'd like to see dragon pick it up again.
Actually I've been feeling a bit burned out on Dragon lately, what with Dark Sun and this one, but the next few look cool (planes and some Al-Quadim stuff), so I'm happy.
I hope that some of the classic articles from ages past get re-worked soon. I got the archive CD-Rom,a nd there's some cool things there. But to be honest, If they were writen today, for today's audience with today's rule set, then they'd be better.
More than that however, there's a problem with magazines: any mag that stays true to it's vision will eventually burn out it's readers. I've found it time and time again, it's not the magazien that gets boring, it's that it's no longer frech. So they try to make it fresh, and guess what? The readers complain it's changed.
Combined with the fact that the things that Dragon is for (new rules etc), gets serviced by specific books that people are interested in the specific topic will buy (and this is all made worse by the OGL), and it's a difficult job being a magazine editor these days.
Edit: However, having juest been looking at the archive CD-ROM, I have noticed one thing. The articles (especially the ecology ones) used to weave fiction and rules stuff much more effectively. This made for good reading, which would inspire the game, and I'd like to see dragon pick it up again.
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