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

[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.