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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Timeboxer" data-source="post: 1889968" data-attributes="member: 21471">Okay, here're my somewhat jumbled and incoherent thoughts.  The only two Dragons I own were for the DM Screen, and also the Campaign Settings one.  I have to admit that I've never found Dragon all that interesting, and find Dungeon much more useful -- too much crunch, as a lot of people have noted.That said, I don't read the fiction, to be honest, but I would if every piece of fiction had some relevance to my game -- as in, if it were the fluff that gave me a cool new NPC or magic item or feat or whatever.  Otherwise, it's not very useful, since it's not really applicable to anything I'm doing.A lot of people have been talking about battle tactics and so on, and I think that something about brilliant and creative uses for spells, both in and out of battle, would make me very enthused.  Or things like the "Knight's Walk" tactic of using Spring Attack, and that sort of thing.Oh, yes, and I'm going to buck the trend and say that I love Eberron, and I find Eberron adventures in Dungeon useful and good, but these interviews on creating Eberron and so on -- no.  Give me useful fluff that's helpful for entwining a character within the setting.  I also think that it would be nice if Dragon acted as the vanguard for some of the old settings that people are still interested in.  An article a month, perhaps?$40 is too much for a magazine, I agree; if it were something like $20 or $25, however, I'd certainly obtain a subscription.Finally, I think that the litmus test for a good issue of Dragon would go something like: "In ten years, when everyone is playing D&D v5.4123, will this still be useful?"  I've heard a lot of people talking about how their old issues of Dragon are still chockful of ideas, and I think that the current nature of Dragon is a bit, well, ephemeral; fluff goes a much longer way toward mitigating this than any amount of crunch does.</blockquote>

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