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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SamSpectre" data-source="post: 1887464" data-attributes="member: 5929">First of all, I did not read all four pages of responses so I'm sorry if any of this is redundant.Secondly, I _am_ a Dragon subscriber (have been for a few years, since 3.0 first debuted) but am considering dropping the subscription.Why?  When 3.0 first came out, the idea of a vastly expandable D&D system was great.  I only wanted more.  I bought almost every D20 item that was published for the first year, and I can tell you that is a lot.  More than a lot, probably too much.  A lot of the material I will never, ever use.  If I had any hopes of unloading it for a decent price on eBay, I'd be there.Dragon, at the time, was VERY useful to me because it gave me insight into the new system.  I would carry around a few extra copies to games to reference Sage Advice columns, or study SOME of the Prestige Class constructions to get inspiration or insight into creating my own for my home brew campaign.  You only need so much of that however before the you don't need anymore.  This is where I am now.  I have everything I need to run a 3.0/3.5 campaign from now until I'm old and grizzled (at least a few more years).Now then, what do I think would help Dragon?  This might seem a bit radical, but I think Paizo/WotC should abandon the traditional magazine approach.  The glossy pages are too expensive to print.  I would be happier with a monthly packet of articles and goodies that were binder hole-punched so that I could remove them and set them into separate binders for easy accessibility (rather than needing to carry around a ton of magazine, or photocopy good articles) ala Monstrous Compendiums, HarnQuests, sort of.  Instead of creating useless Prestige Classes, monster ecologies, etc., publish useful stuff; meaning: material that was dropped from a publication due to page constraints, world-kingdom-town maps for published campaigns, rules that were dropped for page constraints of core books.  A few pages that add depth to Greyhawk (always good), or FR (rarely good), or Eb that could be stored elsewhere, would be nice.  The more open-source stuff, the better.  I don't know how you'd incorporate advertising into this model, but if you weren't doing full-color background splashes on glossy pages, I imagine your printing costs would plummet.Another idea would be to publish primarily by .pdf, catered to keywords that the subscriber wants updates on.  Such as, I might check off [x] Sage Advice, [x] Greyhawk, [x] Open Source Content, [x] Cartoons; and then only be sent (by e-mail or available on a web server) those files, once a month.Those are my ideas, today.</blockquote>

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