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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larcen" data-source="post: 1897019" data-attributes="member: 2406">Disclaimer: I have not read all 16 pages (!) of this so if the following suggestions have already been made, simply add my voice to theirs.I no longer subscribe. Instead if I see an interesting Dragon magazine in a magazine rack, I buy it. But I don’t necessarily seek it out because I have many other D&D things to read already. Ever hear of the song "Video Killed the Radio Star"? This is a case of "Internet and OGC Killed the Magazine Star". With so much material to be found online and in all the published OGC stuff, there is already too much information for me to absorb from one month to the next.But, there is an opportunity here. I say embrace the OGC stuff. Don't fight or compete with it. Here's how... You want to help me enough to want to subscribe? Then help me filter all the good OGC stuff from the bad. Have much more reviews of all the latest 3rd party stuff out there, both books and software. Real, good, in depth reviews. Help me (and especially newbies) to choose and use the massive amounts of crunch already available. Keep a Hall of Fame page for capsulized "must have" stuff. Give me that and less crunch. I know that there are plenty of review websites out there, this one included, but you guys are in a much more elevated and visible position. Heck, why don’t you review the review sites!  Make it a new department called “D20 Online Connection” or something.  You guys should be poised to be The place to go for reviewing, categorizing, and using all things D20.Example:Player1: "Hey, Bob, what do you think of this new D20 product that is coming out this month? It looks good, but I wonder what's really in it, how can we use it, and will it fit into our campaign theme?"Player2: "I got my eye on that too, dude. Can't wait until the next Dragon comes out to see what they say about it. I really liked their article last month on how to incorporate, expand upon, and balance out this other stuff over here."You guys should really be shaking hands with and talking to all the D20 publishers out there. If anyone should have there finger on the D20 community’s pulse, it should be Dragon magazine.  I would even go so far as to say make your magazine 80% reviews, how-tos, and designer interviews… and 20% new rules content.  I would be happy.  Keep Dungeon mostly for WOTC’s new ideas and make Dragon a repository of mostly everyone else’s.  Ok, maybe I am exaggerating here but you get the idea.  Make the magazine more of a “D20 News” source.  When you wake up on some mornings don’t think “what new and exciting article can we come up with this month?”, instead think “what new and exciting ideas has the D20 community come up with?”Oh yeah, one more thing along these lines. Take a tip from Video game review magazines and rate each product by categories. Instead of Gameplay, Graphics, Sound, etc, categorize all the D20 products on such things as Target Audience, Setting Style, Crunch level, Writing, Layout, Artwork, etc.Thanks for listening and good luck.</blockquote>

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