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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pjurgens" data-source="post: 1887410" data-attributes="member: 19401">Why _DON'T_ You Buy Dragon MagazineI am not sure if I am the type of person that you want a response from since I am a current subscriber to Dragon.  My first issue of Dragon was #39 – I guess that makes me an old timer.  I have had subscriptions on and off since.  My latest run of 10 years is definitely the longest, but I am pretty well decided that it is time to move back to the “off” column for a while.Why would I let my subscription lapse?  There are a few things that have been bothering me lately.  One is the recent reformatting of the magazine.  I know that every new editor needs to leave his/her mark on the magazine, but the reformat seems to be repeating the same mistakes made by the previous reformat.  I feel like I could go back 4 or 5 years and dig up the criticisms of that change and they would be 90% relevant to the changes presented today.Second, I am sick of new feats.  39 new feats.  37 new feats.  Blah, blah, blah.  I don’t really understand the excitement over new feats.  When I look at all of the new feats the only thing that comes to mind is a feeling that the feat mechanic is being diminished and abused.  I loved the concept of feats when it was originally presented in 3.0.  At first I thought the feats presents in the PHB were fantastic.  But what I can’t seem to understand is the attitude that we need dozens of new feats.  Most of the new feats presented in Dragon seem unbalancing or trite or are tailored to a specific home-campaign or they expose a flaw/limitation in the 3E/3.5E rules.  (I can give an example if needed).  I really feel like the pages dedicated to new feats could be much better spent.Third, I think I could make the same comments about new spells and magic items, but not nearly as strongly.  I really enjoy new magic items when they are presented.  I like magic items with a little history as opposed to another +1 long sword.  The new spells are a little more dicey – sometimes I feel like the new spells are unbalanced or not well conceived or, like my comment about feats above, they expose flaws/limitations of the 3E spell system. Finally, though I do feel there are creative ideas that you can extract from articles on worlds/settings that are of otherwise no interest, it seems like the number of these articles is on the rise.  I know that a certain number of these articles is to be expected because WOTC needs to support their latest setting, but enough.  Issue #326 seems to be much better than other recent issues.  But I find myself not-reading about as much as I do read.  And that makes me wonder if it is money well spent.Reading the other responses above I see some fantastic ideas.  These ideas from Thorin Stoutfoot would surely convince me to stay….</blockquote>

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