The end of printed Dungeon & Dragon Magazines?

Catman Jim · Post by **Catman Jim** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:23 pm

Paizo has announced that they will no longer be publishing Dungeon & Dragon Magazines after September of this year.

http://paizo.com

Wizards has posted a similar statement.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/news/20070419a

Rotipher of the FoS · Post by **Rotipher of the FoS** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:02 pm

Whoa, that's a shocker! Those magazines were my pre-Web lifeline to RPGs at times when real life got too busy to play. How depressing....

Bummer ... not even a last October issue, to say bye-bye to Ravenloft in print, either. Why couldn't they have waited just one more month?

Joël of the FoS · Post by **Joël of the FoS** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 4:48 pm

Yes, that is quite a surprise ...

*nostalgic feel in the air*

cure · Post by **cure** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:28 pm

No doubt there is a 'brilliant' marketing strategy hidden somewhere inside this decision . . . especially as it is brought to us by the same strategic minds that gave us the blue-clad dread elf pirate of Lake Baratok.

Spiteful Crow · Post by **Spiteful Crow** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:12 pm

Supposedly, it's because the coastly wizards want to publish stuff online instead of in print.

LordGodefroi · Post by **LordGodefroi** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:23 pm

Gee. That's too bad. I don't read on-line publications. . . period. I guess that's more money I get to save. (Looks like the bean-counters are running the show at WoTC/Paizo.)

LordGodefroi · Post by **LordGodefroi** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:27 pm

Hmm. This is pure speculation but. . .

do you think the picture of a Dragon torching a village is somehow indicative of some behind-the-scenes relationship ?

Anyway, I'll miss Dragon magazine. I've been reading it off-and-on, subscribed here and there, since issue #67.

Daisu · Post by **Daisu** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:48 am

Only time I read dragon magazine is when it contains ravenloft.

alhoon · Post by **alhoon** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:48 am

What I think good: I'm favoring on line publications
What I bad: The discontinuation of such a line that goes back... 15 years?
I would prefer that the WotC would puplish online the Dragon/Dungeon magazine and also sell the hard copies.

Bloody Morgan · Post by **Bloody Morgan** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:28 am

For Dragon, try a line that goes back 31 years - it started in June 1976. Dungeon kicked off just over ten years later, September '86.

That's what saddens me most I think. I'll miss the magazines for their content, but they've been a staple of gaming since the beginning. They've outlasted pretty much everything else that came along - I don't know if anything can live up to that.

So said, I'm curious to see what both Paizo and Wizards do with their new products. I just don't know I'll follow them as closely as I did.

Le Noir Faineant · Post by **Le Noir Faineant** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:47 am

Seems to me like WotC eiminating competetion on the market. It was years that people talked better about Paizo than about WotC. Wizbro surely may not have liked that...

Jester of the FoS · Post by **Jester of the FoS** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:33 am

I dunno. Regular free online content, or even for a small charge, released in periodic articles instead of one monthly surge.
Could be handy. And you could just print off what you want saving paper.

WotC likely just wanted to return Dragon and Dungeon back into official fold and let the license expire. And instead of just begining publication themselves (and hiring a whole new possibly inexperienced staff) they decided to go online.

Drinnik Shoehorn · Post by **Drinnik Shoehorn** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:15 pm

Jester of the FoS wrote:I dunno. Regular free online content, or even for a small charge, released in periodic articles instead of one monthly surge.
Could be handy. And you could just print off what you want saving paper.

WotC likely just wanted to return Dragon and Dungeon back into official fold and let the license expire. And instead of just begining publication themselves (and hiring a whole new possibly inexperienced staff) they decided to go online.

But Dungeon and Dragon where official content.

Jester of the FoS · Post by **Jester of the FoS** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:23 pm

Official content published by another company. Therein lies the problem.

Catman Jim · Post by **Catman Jim** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:13 pm

Hmm, Wizards decides to license one of it's possibly not-too-profitable properties to another company, then later decides (for whatever reason) to pull it's license back after the other company appears to be making a success of it. Why does that sound familiar?

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The end of printed Dungeon & Dragon Magazines?

The end of printed Dungeon & Dragon Magazines?