D&D General Why Were the Dragon and Dungeon Magazines Discontinued?

[Parmandur]

Greenwood has written FR books on DMsGuild too. I can't imagine how lore could get more "official" than these two. It's not ALL "someone's obscure homebrew".

And even beyond them, there is some wildly great content, often with production values exceeding thst of the classic magazines! Sometimes by a lot!

 

[darjr]

I do wonder what would have happened if things worked out enough that Paizo kept the license for the magazines. I know it’s asking a lot of things to be different but I wonder if they’d still be printing them now.

 

[Parmandur]

I do wonder what would have happened if things worked out enough that Paizo kept the license for the magazines. I know it’s asking a lot of things to be different but I wonder if they’d still be printing them now.

Different, 100%, but I think the magazines would have shuttered by now one way or another...though if they could have hung on to distribution ujtill 2015, maybe the 5E revival could have kept the magazines going.

But then, maybe if Paizo and WotC didn't part ways, maybe 5E's existence and/or success gets butterflied away? Who knows.

 

[mamba]

There is Level Up's monthly Gate Pass Gazette, which does contain several articles that can be used for 5e

yes, there are a few magazines for those that want them

ARCADIA Complete Bundle | Issues 1-30

Every issue of ARCADIA! A monthly digital magazine for 5e players and dungeon masters. Each issue of Arcadia has three articles, and each article is something you can use: new subclasses, adventures, magic items, monsters, whole new optional rules for stuff like air combat, using monsters as...

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Lair Magazine

Lair Magazine contains a plethora of 5e and Pathfinder 2 game master resources such as adventures, puzzles, traps, villains, monsters, and magic items!

thedmlair.com

Get more from Gate Pass Gazette on Patreon

Level Up: A5E magazine: get all issues when you subscribe!

www.patreon.com

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

 

[darjr]

yes, there are a few magazines for those that want them

ARCADIA Complete Bundle | Issues 1-30

Every issue of ARCADIA! A monthly digital magazine for 5e players and dungeon masters. Each issue of Arcadia has three articles, and each article is something you can use: new subclasses, adventures, magic items, monsters, whole new optional rules for stuff like air combat, using monsters as...

shop.mcdmproductions.com

Lair Magazine

Lair Magazine contains a plethora of 5e and Pathfinder 2 game master resources such as adventures, puzzles, traps, villains, monsters, and magic items!

thedmlair.com

Get more from Gate Pass Gazette on Patreon

Level Up: A5E magazine: get all issues when you subscribe!

www.patreon.com

DriveThruRPG

www.drivethrurpg.com

Arcaidia is on hiatus and may not be a D&D magazine when it returns.

I think one of the folks who was instrumental with Arcadia created a new magazine but I can't think of it right now.

 

[M.L. Martin]

I looked at the publicly available circulation numbers for Dragon back when they closed up shop, and the last published figures show a 20% year-to-year drop in circulation, IIRC.

 

[Zaukrie]

Dndbeyond actually has a lot of content, free, that was in the old mags. Class advice, DM advice, encounters though those seem to have disappeared largely.

As others have said, DMs guild and drive thru have so much content. Much of it good, actually.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

I would like to see Dragon in print again.

 

[mamba]

Arcaidia is on hiatus and may not be a D&D magazine when it returns.

yes, it’s discontinued, but at 30 magazines for $30 the bundle still could be of interest for those that do not have it.

Can’t really go that wrong at that price

 

[Clint_L]

The main reason magazines are going extinct, especially for niche hobbies, is the thing you're looking at right now. Awesome websites like this offer all the content a magazine could, and more, updated daily, with forums where you can trade ideas in real time with your fellow fans. For free. Hard for a print magazine to compete.