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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Shaman" data-source="post: 1887999" data-attributes="member: 26473">The death of Polyhedron: I would often buy Dragon at the same time that I bought Dungeon/Polyhedron, otherwise I had no reason to walk past the newsrack in the gaming store. Even if it was the same issue of Dungeon/Polyhedron on the rack, I'd usually grab a new Dragon if it was there. Now I have no reason to even look at the covers.Nuking Polyhedron was unconscionable to me. Bad call. Very bad call.See the movie? No, I'll wait for the book: When so much of what gets published in Dragon will end up in a WotC supplement or accessory somewhere down the line, there's very little incentive to pay for something twice.It's even more of a disincentive to buy Dragon when I pass on so many WotC books as it is, thanks to...Rule overload: Every new feat, every new PrC, every new mechanic is just another rule added to the game. The longer I play d20 3.x, the more I find myself stripping the game down to basics: core rules, a couple of core classes from the Complete... books - that's all I really need anymore.About the only thing that I would like to see more of are spells - it always stretches my credulity that a world in which magic has been in existence for thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years has so few spells, relatively speaking. I can usually cover for this in my world-creation background, but still, more magic certainly makes sense. However, I would still be reluctant to use spells published in Dragon as...So much of what's in Dragon is pure crap: Unbalanced. Unplaytested. Published campaign-specific. Crap.I recently started pouring through old issues of the magazine, as I'm cleaning out boxes from the garage (to make space for baby stuff that will be going into storage...one of the many joys of parenthood is the accelerated accumulation of "stuff"). I flipped through about thirty or so backissues, and decided to save five. That means that about two issues a year are keepers to me. And generally speaking that works about to about six articles a year.Because this material often gets recycled as a WotC supplement, you can probably understand why I don't buy many of their books anymore, either.And while this doesn't pertain to Dragon specifically, I would also like to chirp about...Poor customer service: I purchased three or four Dungeon/Polyhedron backissues last month, and Paizo sent me unsaleable defectives - the covers were on wrong, pages were out of order, and so on. A warning that backissues paid for at well over the cover price may be newsstand rejects would have been appreciated.I've wracked my brain and I can't think of any.For me, the bottom line is that I picked up Dragon ultimately to support the publication of Polyhedron. With Polyhedron gone, I have no use for Dragon, or Dungeon either for that matter.</blockquote>

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