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Why Were the Dragon and Dungeon Magazines Discontinued?
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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9509299" data-attributes="member: 52734"><p>As others have said, Wizards must have determined that it wasn't profitable, and Dragon had basically become an advertisement and supplement to whatever was being published that month - and at the time they were pretty much releasing free PDFs of anything that got cut from the books.</p><p></p><p>Paizo got to keep the list of subscribers, and I remember my subscription getting converted to their AP line - and a I ended up extending it through a few extra AP's.</p><p></p><p>I'm sad they went away from print, and the electronic version just wasn't the same and withered away (after it being initially a 4E online subscription, once 5E rolled around I wasn't even aware they were still making it, until they declared they were going to pull them off the web site). I do think they could do well with a return of Dungeon (especially if they coupled it with an option that gives you paper battle maps, minis, handouts or other physical product). Reviving Dragon would be much more difficult, as the content you see in it is pretty much covered by DMs Guild nowadays. If they were willing to put in the (significant) effort, they could revive Dragon as a "best of the best", compiling a handful of the better DM's Guild content and putting it out in print format.</p><p></p><p>I have Dragon #98 until the end of the print run and Dungeon #13 to the end of that run, but sadly they're all boxed up in a storage unit and I haven't looked at them in ages (I did get lucky enough to get the Dragon CD-ROM, and keep that on my drive if I ever want to look at something).</p><p></p><p>My favorite thing out of Dragon was actually the Fool Wolf stories. I miss the short fiction from Dragon a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 9509299, member: 52734"] As others have said, Wizards must have determined that it wasn't profitable, and Dragon had basically become an advertisement and supplement to whatever was being published that month - and at the time they were pretty much releasing free PDFs of anything that got cut from the books. Paizo got to keep the list of subscribers, and I remember my subscription getting converted to their AP line - and a I ended up extending it through a few extra AP's. I'm sad they went away from print, and the electronic version just wasn't the same and withered away (after it being initially a 4E online subscription, once 5E rolled around I wasn't even aware they were still making it, until they declared they were going to pull them off the web site). I do think they could do well with a return of Dungeon (especially if they coupled it with an option that gives you paper battle maps, minis, handouts or other physical product). Reviving Dragon would be much more difficult, as the content you see in it is pretty much covered by DMs Guild nowadays. If they were willing to put in the (significant) effort, they could revive Dragon as a "best of the best", compiling a handful of the better DM's Guild content and putting it out in print format. I have Dragon #98 until the end of the print run and Dungeon #13 to the end of that run, but sadly they're all boxed up in a storage unit and I haven't looked at them in ages (I did get lucky enough to get the Dragon CD-ROM, and keep that on my drive if I ever want to look at something). My favorite thing out of Dragon was actually the Fool Wolf stories. I miss the short fiction from Dragon a lot. [/QUOTE]
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