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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShadowDenizen" data-source="post: 1887807" data-attributes="member: 16485">Interesting question, Erik, and something I think about from time to time.I'll preface my comments by saying that I used to be an avid "Dragon" reader for many, many years: I never missed a month.  I still refer to many of the old articles, which we've updated to 3rd Edition.. (The two-part article on "The Nine Hells" published way-back-when, the "Witch" character class, the "Death Master". and lots of other stuff, which I won't enumerate here.)  But towards the end of 2nd Edition and into 3rd Edition, I've lost the love I used to have.I guess the reason I don't read "Dragon" now is manyfold. (Some of which you have no control over, of course.): many of these were already listed by others, but I'm still including them in my list, simply as an FYI.First, I'm an older gamer, so I already have tons and tons of stuff that I've purchased over the years that fits my  needs, or that I can adapt with some effort.Second, I don't buy much WotC stuff in general.  My interest lies in "fluff" more than crunch. I buy stuff from Fantasy Flight (the "Midnight" setting, AEG, Mongoose (Conan, Lone Wolf, B5).  I bought and -loved- the "Draconomicon", but I was sorely disappointed by "Libris Mortis."Third, (and this is just MHO), I'll agree with Arcane Runes Press:  I'll go further and say that "Dragon" seems like it's currently geared towards the teenager set. ("Add gunpowder to your D+D game!", "How to play a Dragon PC", "13 new prestige classes", "27 new feats", etc.) Fourth, I used to also look forward to the campaign-specific info. (Again, I culled lots of great Dark-Sun, Ravenloft and Planescape info in years-gone-by.): since I don't play Eberron, Forgotten Realms, and there seems to be very little Greyhawk stuff, this is not a factor anymore.Fifth, the "Dark-Sun" revision.  While I appreciate that you wanted to revive an older campaign-setting, but, IMHO, the revisions didn't live up to the original in any way, and more, (again, IMO), it disprespected the source material.  I understand, from reading the authors posts, why things happened the way they did, but the whole issue didn't sit well with me.Sixth, the price to usefulness ratio. (Again, this is something you probably have no control over.): $7 a month is quite expensive for me to get some articles of dubious usefullness.  It seems like the page-count is low for the amount of actual infomration the reader gets, as the few issues I leafed through over the past year have more and more pages of ads.</blockquote>

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