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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 2912592" data-attributes="member: 1757">Could be a bit of both. I'm a bad test case, since I did indeed start around issue 50, and also think they're great.I actually quite like issues 101-130 (or so) of Dragon, largely for the vast numbers of crunchy bits. The Marvel-Phile was great; Arcane Lore (at first) was awesome; the mini-games were cool; and there was an enormous amount of mechanical stuff for a game that (comparatively speaking) was still pretty light on that sort of thing: rules on thieves' guilds, wizards' colleges, temples, running kingdoms, collecting taxes, raising armies, running gladiatorial combats or tournaments; new magic items; the Creature Catalogs; etc. An Asgard-themed issue with its own adventure(!). I'm actually not a huge fan of the current run, but for the poor reason that I feel like I just have too much of the stuff that tends to feature (new PrCs, items, spells, monsters, etc.). I'd rather articles like "Cities of the Realms" or especially the Demonomicon and Greyhawk Gazettee. But I think that's a matter of personal taste. The magazine certainly looks good (although I, too, would prefer a cleaner cover design), the articles are of high quality, and there's a lot to them, but it just doesn't suit my tastes any more.</blockquote>