Era Ending

[thebitterguy]

So, yeah, everyone should know by now that Dragon & Dungeon will no longer be in publication as of this fall. Know what that means? By 2011, mr_weasel will be caught up!

Ha, I kid.

It's annoying, primarily because Dragon was the first periodical to ever exact commercer with me (I don't recall what I got for those articles; I probably should have photocopied the checks) and that is something I'll always be proud of.

Everyone has different feelings about it, but here's my metaphor: It's like myneighbourhood bar is closing down. Sure, it's had a bunch of different owners, and sometimes I just didn't go there too frequently(like when they became a wine bar), but it was always there.

Dragon was also the last place to get any Al-Qadim material. Shame, that.

Comments

[tymen.livejournal.com]

That is a shame, not that I've even looked at a Dragon or Dungeon in the past few years, but it is a sad day, that an icon of the RPG industry will no longer be with us.

[thebitterguy]

They've been pretty good for the past while. They definitely fill a role for providing semi-official D&D material.

[crashing-angel.livejournal.com]

That's seriously depressing!!

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

Yeah. In the late 80s, I went through a bit of a gaming drought because most of my gnat-like attention span was caught up with SCA things. But I worked in a bookstore that got Dragon (and Dungeon) and it was through the former that I kept up with the state of the industry. This, of course, was back when Dragon actually had content about other game systems.

I like your metaphor.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, yeah, the good old days. They really did tend to focus on TSR's games, but they did have some great Champions articles in Ares on occasion.

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

I have a whole trunkful of Dragon somewhere, but I haven't opened that particular trunk in years. I think it was a case of just moving on and getting interested in things other than the TSRverse.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

That's a shame. I actually subscribed to Dragon for a few years, and I think that's the only time I've ever subscribed to a magazine (even comics I just picked up at the store). And I've got plenty of them lurking about my shelves and drawers.

Still, I haven't read an issue in at least 4 or 5 years, so I can't be _too_ broken up by it.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Truly the end of an era.

They were about the only gaming magazines left in wide circulation, other than say White Dwarf, another famous wine bar.

[ladystarstruck.livejournal.com]

The thing about the state of gaming these days though, is that anyone who would once have submitted an article to Dragon or Dungeon, having created something interesting, will now just get it published by a game company, using the open license. The magazines must be starved for content, and that brings quality way down. All I read for the last while was the comics, and those are online anyways.