Wil Wheaton Drops Dungeon Column

[diaglo]

I hope the next last page article is about collectible doileys.

which would still be an improvement

 

[diaglo]

Yeah, those one-page adventures are soooooooo exciting.

maps of mystery.
side trek

orc and pie...

 

[Varianor Abroad]

I'll miss the column. It fit my life situation pretty well. Plus it was really cool to see that a celebrity played D&D.

 

[Ranes]

I'm glad it's gone but not because I didn't like it. I quite enjoyed it for what it was. But the writing was on the wall when Wil penned the piece about not being able to get a game going with his stepsons. If he'd been able to participate in regular game and write about it, it would have been the perfect end to the magazine. Every month, that's what I hoped was coming. Every month, I got something else instead. I found his column entertaining but, given the content of the rest of the magazine, I felt that Wil would have connected with more of the readers had he been talking about games of D&D.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't have minded reading his opinions on rules, editions or even new publications from WotC and others. I would have settled for reading more about his recollected Car Wars or Illuminati experiences, for that matter. But it seems that his priorities lay elsewhere. I respect that but think his decision to take the column no further, under those circumstances, was the right one. I am saddened by the vitriol he apparently endured from some readers but he's been around the block and I'm sure he's big enough to take that in his stride.

Best of luck to him and his re-vamped blog.

 

[GlassJaw]

Although the anti-Wil threads were getting pretty out of control on the Paizo boards, if you take Wil at his word, it doesn't sound like that's the reason he decided to stop.

I don't know, I was always kind of neutral on Wil Save. I always read it but sometimes I didn't get the point. After reading the column, I always felt like he was trying to be really deep and poignant but it always fell short. *shrugs* I certainly didn't hate it by any means and if I was to vote something off the Dungeon island, it would certainly be the lame comics or the letters before Wil Save. The letters and comics take a lot more than 1 page. And who needs a letters page when you have message boards?

 

[JPL]

I guess I'd rather see Monte Cook, or Robin Laws, or Ken Hite, get one page a month to do whatever they want.

And personally...I find Wil kind of depressing. He was on frigging ST:TNG, and he threw it away, and it still seems to eat at him.

And how did Wes end up a Starfleet Lieutenant [j.g.] in "Nemesis," anyway? I mean, that's swell and all, glad to have you back, Wes, but how did Super-Wesley, the Chosen One, who was piloting the freaking Enterprise at 16, end up at 32 as the third shift engineering supervisor on the Titan? And weren't you supposed to be, like, exploring the cosmos and such? And time and space?

I guess I kind of blend Wes and Wil together in my mind into one depressing underachiever...and I see too much of myself in that guy, y'know?

 

[LeapingShark]

Wil's column was the only reason I considered keeping my subscription. Having two young boys at home that I hope to involve in gaming (dont worry, I have a large basement for when they are older), it was fun to read the stories about his son.

Well for goodness sakes go bookmark Wil's blog then, you can get stories about his stepson in spades, and for free!

 

[TerraDave]

And all this time, I thought elitists only live in high school campuses and college Greek houses.

[OT] Oh no, they are everywhere [/OT]

Sham about the column. I hope Mr. Mona does know to take anything said on the internet with a large grain of salt (he must, right?) and it does sound like there may be a little more to droping the column than that. But again, it is a shame.

 

[Bagpuss]

It's about the only thing I read with any regularity in Dungeon, since I'm not currently playing D&D. Certain it is 100 times better than that awful two page artistic mess they call the comic.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

He was on frigging ST:TNG, and he threw it away, and it still seems to eat at him.

I know very little about Star Trek, and even less about any behind-the-scenes stuff. How did he throw it away? (I've always been under the impression that the fans despised his character so much that his character went away, which doesn't sound to me like he had much say in the matter.)