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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chant in the Box" data-source="post: 1893614" data-attributes="member: 26704">Why I don't buy Dragon magazine??What about why I will not buy Dragon magazine in the future?To be specific I used to buy the magazine almost every month until the new dragon magazine format came out.To make it short, it's boring.  The inside look is quite awful compared to the previous format.  Else, the last three issues failed to spark any interest in me.Like most people on this tread, I think Dungeon is a far better product than Dragon.  You can credit it for the modules in the Greyhawk setting in particular.  A follow up to the Maure Castle will be very nice indeed.  Some of the other reasons that will rules me out forever as a Dragon buyer has been summerized by previous contributors of this tread so I will go strait to what I will like to see in Dragon.First, I second the suggestion that a colloboration with the RPGA to make sure that the Greyhawk material published in Dragon is available to the Living Greyhawk players.Second, this colloboration could be used to publish articles related to each country of the Greyhawk setting in a similar format to what I have seen in the regions description in Unaproachable East or Shining South.  It will be an opportunity to bring the setting upto date with the current campaign year without subcribing to the RPGA as well as giving a flavorlike idea of each region without delving too much in detail.  I remember an early issue of the Living Greyhawk Journal about the Kingdom of Keoland that could be a good starting point to assessing the space that should be given to such an article.Like many people on this tread, I'm more interested in campaign flavor than rules as far as it goes with the existing campaign settings and more so with the old favorites.  For me that means Darksun and Greyhawk.  And, please, no more author alienation and article tweeking without respect to either the setting or the author like what was done with the darksun issue.  That was unwise to say the least.<<<<<For those who needs a concrete show of what is unbalancing material in Dragon magazine, check the Mighty Contender of Kord in the smite evil issue that were published in the same year as Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil.  The starting concept was great, but the author did not search hard enough how the class could be abused in its mechanics.  As I write this post, I have revised the class twice and it's still very powerful but less frightening.>>>>>That's all the feedback I have to give to this discussion....for now.</blockquote>

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