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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Psion" data-source="post: 1890010" data-attributes="member: 959">I do subscribe to Dragon, but did let my Dungeon subscription run out. Will I let my Dragon run out too??Why should a person subscribe? A very good question, but here is another, what Value is there in subscribing?There used to be the Dragon annual, for a while there was a free gaming book, but now a subscriber get none of these. In fact a subscriber does not even get the magazine first! The next issue shipped on Nov 30th, but you watch, it will be on shelves Mon or Tues, while us subscribers won't see it for another week. All of my other magazines for this month are already here, for what I pay for Dragon, it should be as well.How do you add value to a subscription? Aside from bringing back the annual, using the campaign classics issue as a guide, what about making each issue available in a secure pdf format to subscribers the day it is mailed? When we start talking about it on the message boards, it would be free publicity.Dragon ContentI agree with a lot of what was said by others. The current Ecology articles are like reading a high school textbook. The last one was Rakshasa, the most manipulative, deceptive and Machiavellian creature in the game, but this article made them seem boring!! "You need a Good and Piercing weapon to hurt them"? No, you need a crossbow, armed with a bolt blessed by a priest true of heart. The fiction should be blended into articles like these. Look back at the Van Richten Guides from 2e Ravenloft. The main text was written for the "Character", the side bars were for the "Player".The Class Acts articles are a good idea, they just need to be expanded beyond the core classes. I have been playing a Fighter, Magic-User, Cleric or Thief for years, give me a reason to play an Artificer, Healer, Wilder or Warlock. There has been an explosion of "new" core classes lately, but they have no support! Here is where we NEED those feats & PrCs.Show me how to USE all those Prestige Classes! How would a Cleric become an Assassin? What would a Psionic Loremaster look like?  Make me look at a class in a new way.Here is a good example, there is a new pdf that adapts the Expanded Psionics rules to D20 Modern. Now with d20 Modern rules, the Soul Knife becomes an Advanced class and I would need to to use the core classes first.But think about that a moment; A Strong Soul Knife, A Fast Soul Knife, A Tough Soul Knife, A Smart Soul Knife, A Dedicated Soul Knife or a Charismatic Soul Knife. It made me rethink what a Soul Knife was AS a class.Dragon used to support other games in its Ares Section. I discovered Gamma World in an issue of Dragon magazine. How many people have yet to discover half of the games out there?I also have to agree that Dragon feels "Dumbed Down", there is so much focus on new gamers, but many of us "old timers" have been there, done that, got it enblazoned on a shield a long time ago. How do you reach both? I like the idea of a campaign setting unique to Dragon magazine.I also have to say that Dragon NEEDS to be in Wal Mart! It needs to be on news stands. If I left an issue on the counter at work, how many new gamers would that one issue create? I have had people ask me "What is that magazine?" while reading it. If it was on news stands, they could answer their own questions.</blockquote>

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