James M. Ward wrote:
How can I say that, I was the publisher of DRAGON and DUNGEON and I know what that magazine was like.
James M. Ward
Managing Editor
CRUSADER
Roflmao
Loved that line.
It did read (oddly) to me the way Julian read the post he was concerned with. I knew it wasnt what it seemed and just wondered if Mr. Ward wasnt paying enough attention to what goes into his coffee or something.
(mostly because James posted in another thread that he had plenty of monsters for the moment.)
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The Rock says ...
dachda wrote:
I'm enjoying the Crusader more and more. I read it cover to cover within the hour of pulling it from my mailbox and my only complaint is that it is too short, so I finish it too quickly and am left wanting more.
Great work, Mr. Ward.
That's my only complaint so far as well.
(I may gripe about a specific article here and there but only because they are only " really good" and I was in the mood of for "freakin' awesome")
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The Rock says ...
I've been very happy with what I've seen in The Crusader thus far, and have gone out of my way on several occasions to PM Jim with "positive reinforcement." I enjoyed the old issues of Dragon, and am happy that I invested in the CD set of the journal. I can read it whenever I want.
That being said, though, I can't necessarily say that I want to see something else come back and "replace" it. For everything that Gary put into it, and this isn't a dig at anybody involved with Crusader or any other gaming periodical right now, you can no more replace the old Dragon as you can replace Gary or Dave Arneson or anyone/-thing else of that era. It had its points that we remember fondly, and I think Jim and the Trolls are bringing many of those good things back successfully.
The times were completely different at that point, and audiences needed different things than we do. We've benefitted from those nuggets of wisdom, either personally or vicariously through others. Gary and the rest of the folks on the old Dragon staff were blazing completely new ground. We're talking about what we want. That's vastly different from what the gaming community needed in its infancy. And again, I'm not trying to talk down to/about gamers in the infancy of the industry. They simply didn't have the luxury of all of the books from all of the various game systems at their disposal that we all take for granted today. Those guys (and ladies too) were the ones who had to produce it in the first place.
That's something I've found myself wrestling with of late. What do we, as gamers today, need to be better gamers? Before I saw the C&C light, I bought reams of splatbooks that contained some things I wanted. Very few of them, however, had crunchy bits of gaming goodness that I felt I needed. Oh well...maybe it's just more nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind....
After receiving the first 5 issues of my current 1 year subscription I am fully satisfied that I have gotten more than my money's worth from these issues!
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