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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 1887224" data-attributes="member: 6957">I occassionally purchase Dragon, but only when it is theme that interests me. (My tastes for D&D are fairly narrow, or in my own word - focused.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )I bought it more when it had non-D&D content, back in the TSR days, and pretty much stopped when it went all D&D. (Yes, I'm Auld...) And I have just never picked up the habit since.One other problem actually goes back about 10 years, when I had a player that would try to insist that if it was 'official' I had to allow it, whether it was from Dragon or from The Complete Elf. (I actually had to kick him out of the game for a while over his insistance that I allow the Complete Book of Elf Cheese.) So rather than have him paw through the magazine and try to grab the most munchkin thing he could find in each issue I stopped even allowing it at the table. (He also had difficulty figuring out, in a Birthright game, why casting a fireball across the border, along a major trade route, would be considered an act of war...)The fiction does not bother me at all, but having fiction that matches the theme/mood of an issue would be good - then it can be considered inspiration.The Auld Grump</blockquote>