The last issue of Dragon magazine

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:18 am

According to posts by the Paizo crew over on ENWorld their work on Dragon magazine came to an end today.

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stoneshape · Post by **stoneshape** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 4:55 pm

Yes a sad day! But something tells me they'll be back, in print form. Maybe a couple of years, maybe a couple of decades...

WotC will eventually put the final hole in their boat!

Omote · Post by **Omote** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:15 pm

Yeah, it's kind of sad to see and icon go, but there hasn't been much interest for me in a while. I hope whatever form it comes back in is a good one.

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Fat Dragon Games · Post by **Fat Dragon Games** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:39 pm

I'm sad to see it go, but the best days of Dragon were when TSR had it. I loved seeing stuff on other games besides D&D. At least we have the Crusader.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:45 pm

I myself haven't been a fan of Dragon for a few years now. Still lots of good memories about it and I have been buying the last half dozen or so issues because of its write ups of various demon and devil iconics, etc...

Dungeon is the one I am going to miss most.

WOTC's electronic initiative is going to be a total failure with me. I buy PDF's, but I don't love them. I love print. I already know WOTC is going to charge more for their on line initiative then I am going to be willing to pay.

So the Dungeon/Dragon era, of 20+ years for me, is over.
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Zudrak · Post by **Zudrak** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:59 pm

Fat Dragon Games wrote:
I'm sad to see it go, but the best days of Dragon were when TSR had it. I loved seeing stuff on other games besides D&D. At least we have the Crusader.

Indeed! I still have to read my new one. I have only read Gary's article so far.
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Maliki · Post by **Maliki** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:29 pm

It's sad to see it come to an end, but I am excited to see what Piazo does with its Pathfinder series, it sounds interesting, plus with Crusader I still get my magazine fix.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:42 pm

Maliki wrote:
It's sad to see it come to an end, but I am excited to see what Piazo does with its Pathfinder series, it sounds interesting

Yeah, I'm getting fidgety to see my copy of Pathfinder arrive next month.

One thing the whole Dragon/Dungeon thing managed to do is raise my interest in what Paizo has been doing. I've even started checking out some of their products. Not bad stuff.

Julian Grimm · Post by **Julian Grimm** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:10 pm

It is sad to see it go but we do have the Crusader and I feel that the torch is being passed from the old guard to the Trolls and C&C more and more.
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Jyrdan Fairblade · Post by **Jyrdan Fairblade** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:16 pm

It makes me glum to think of the end of Dragon. I'm glad that they went with Elmore for the last cover - looking at the preview, it will be a fitting piece of art for the end.

Even though I haven't played 3e in a very long time, I have to say that I've enjoyed Dragon in the last year or so. It went through a really terrible patch (I'm thinking the time when every cover was just a close-up of someone with their mouth open, with no background at all - I still think that they zoom in and crop the art on their covers too much), but I think that they made a concerted effort to pull out of the tailspin.

Geleg · Post by **Geleg** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:45 pm

anyone have a table of contents for the last issue? I haven't taken Dragon in many years (more than 20), but am tempted to get the last one just out of loyalty to the concept. What's inside it these days?

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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:18 pm

I can't say I'll miss it, seeing as I own, I think, 5 issues total, and all of those were given to me (I do have #1-250 in pdf, though) and I haven't even read the ones I do have (I've read parts of some, but never all of any of them.)

From a "historical view" it sucks to see an icon of the RPG die, but from a practical stance: it doesn't bother me at all.

Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:43 pm

The biggest thing I am going to miss about Dungeon is taking apart the adventures, even from various issues, and rearrange maps, NPC's, plot ideas, etc... into totally new adventures with elements stolen from a half dozen to a dozen adventures from about the same number of issues.

I love doing that, and now that I am really into C&C I am even more upset that my collection got burned up, since I didn't start doing this little "game" until after 3E started. I would have about another 50 issues to play with like that.

Guess, when I am in the mood, I'll just have to see how it works with all the modules I have.
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Danger · Post by **Danger** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:28 pm

I, for one, am sorry to see both Dungeon and Dragon go.

Memories of youth and all of that. Plus, they were a very welcome read while I was deployed.

Sigh.

My greatest disappointment comes from the lack/loss of all that material once its all said and done; we'll probably never see a CD compilation of that stuff like we did before (and I'll never, ever forgive myself for not getting it while I could).

Sigh.