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Hi there,

following the thread...
I agree with Dryder: if the *only* problem is copy rights to the comics: you can many old threads concerning the same topic (including my own about a month ago) - you will always read the same: people would love to get access to old out of print issues of Dungeon BECAUSE OF ITS ADVENTURE contents, not because of its comics (the latter just would be a nice bonus, it is not essential to most readers, I guess, though).

Just remove the comic content, keep the rest, put it on cd-rom, and many happy long time Dungeon readers will buy it! :-)

Greetings from Germany,
Guenther

Hi there,

for quite a long time I am looking for for an adventure series which played in the northern Forgotten Realms. It should have been published in some 70ish or 80ish issues... (2nd edition rules).

A friend of mine was enthusiastic about the series, I would love to buy the back issues containging them, but how to know which ones to look for?

If anyone knows which issues I am talking about: please answer.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Guenther

Hi again,

here is my first Dungeon subscription experience:
I subscribed to Dungeon on the start of october. Paizo promptly debited my credit card.

Issue #117 was supposed to be the first issue to be delivered to me. My subscription information on www.paizo.com stated that the issue was to be sent on october, 19th. Today is november, 4th, the very same Dungeon issue is available in a local gaming store for several days - it still did not reach me, though. Do not ask me why a subscriber in Germany receives Dungeon issues several days later than a local gaming store... *big shrug*. It is probably the post's fault?

Having a look into Paizo's subscription price list already showed me before subscribing that the U.K. seems to be considerably closer to the Paizo-headquarters than Germany (from my point of view both are part of the E.U., flying distance is about one hour, just once across the North Sea, so postage costs should be the same, but apparently I am too dumb for understanding this, or non native speaking europeans are unwelcome subscribers...)

Now it seems to be right time for the next lesson: Shop owners in Germany seem to be considerably closer to Seattle than private subscribers! I am curious what my next subscription experience will be...

Greetings from Cologne, Germany
Guenther

Hi there,

I am writing from Germany.
Until this month I also "subscribed" to my local game store. Availability of new issues always was *very* irregular. The shop owner and I always suspected the importing company to be the reason for the delays.

Apparently the problem is somewhere else.
Nevertheless I decided last month to subscribe both magazines. After reading promises on www.paizo.com to improve the regularities of both monthlies, I am quite curious about delivery time of my first subscribed Paizo magazines...

Greetings from Cologne, Germany
Günther

Hi everyone,

I just read that thread about the Dragon-CD-ROMs on the Dragon Message Board. I own about every Dragon issue since issue # 185 - AND I am happy that I purchased the CD-ROMs when they were still widely available. :-)

Unfortunately it was much later that I got to know Dungeon Magazine (I just dismissed Dungeon as some kind of short adventure collection, I was wrong!): I read the postings about which Dungeon adventures are all time classics, I read a similar column in the current Dungeon issue, I read the hints about predecessor adventures when reading recent issues (-> e.g. Flame's returnal). In short: I would like to buy all these old issues!

But I am facing the problem a message board reader from NZ already mentioned in the Dragon CD-ROMs thread: apart from the fact that many back issues are unavailable by now, it is somewhat pricy to buy just those issues which are still available... :-( (-> I live in Europe)

Will there be a D&D anniversary special CD-ROM-edition which sports e.g. the first one hundred Dungeon editions? (that is considerably less content and hopefully less work to do than putting 250 Dragon issues on CD-ROM. ;-) ).

What do other message board readers think about this idea?
What is the Dungeon staff's opinion?
I would definitely buy such a "Dungeon e-collection"!

Greetings from Germany,
Günther

Congratulations, Erik!

I hope that you won't be worn out by this double responsibility! (again: I am not a native speaker, I beg your pardon for my english!)

Your comment on your point of view on the roles of both magazines was good news as well!
I am looking forward to the new changes, Dragon is facing, bringing back some of the dear old favourites while adding some new "spice". :-)

Günther

P.S.
As written above, I am a long time reader of Dragon and an almost as long (but irregular) reader of Dungeon. I purchased every issue I could get my hands on, but I never seriously considered a subscription of either magazine.

Finding this close contact between paizo staff and your loyal readership in this forum really impressed me. I read many magazines (mostly non D&D ones), but I don't know another one which cultivates such a close contact to its readers: you achieved another subscriber of both magazines. :-)

I wholeheartedly agree to you, Jon.

Unfortunately Dungeon does not contain enough space to include both the three adventures per issue AND all the dm-related material which vanished from Dragon.

I would also like to see some more 4 - 6 page dm articles in Dungeon, but where ot put them? Besides I like both the adventures AND the dm articles...

Maybe a compromise could be to revive some of those articles in Dragon which appealed to both players and dms: e.g. Elminster's Guide, Ecology (which does appear even more often in the new Dragon, one of the plusses of the new Dragon!), etc.

Most of the articles you mentioned would have some appeal to players, too, wouldn't they?

Let's see what Erik Mona will be able to tell at the end of this week (see above for his comment).

Günther

You are right stating all the (mostly good) new content. But still I am missing some dear old article serieses from Dragon. Where will they be published?

Dungeon does sport some really nice new articles... most reviewers in here agree on that.

Dragon reduced its DM articles - most readers definitely miss something there.

I don't care whether those campaign specific articles will reappear in Dragon (where they rather belong to, after all this is information usable by both players and dms) or in Dungeon (where all the good new content does not leave much room for changes)... I'd just like to see them reappear. ;-)

Guenther

Hi everyone,

I have to agree. :(
Being the "nerd" who is spending most of the money for my role playing group, I am the one who buys both Dragon and Dungeon magazine.

I did not mind so far, for I benefitted from both magazines (being the group's DM). I read that the new Dragon was to be primarily aimed at players. I was not enthusiastic about that, but expected that all the articles usable by DMs would make the transition to Dungeon.

I was proven wrong, for some really neat new articles showed up in Dungeon (I really like these "small DM problem solvers", but I am wondering how I am to keep a grip on them?!). On the other hand I sincerely miss all those fine DM articles from Dragon.

I really like the new DM articles in Dungeon, I realize that there is only so much space for DM related articesl in Dungeon, but I still miss those articles which made Dragon unique and not a printed version of wizards.com or other D&D-websites. I especially loved the long articles which did not stay on the "surface" of problems but had a "deeper approach" (sorry, obviously I am not a native speaker).

Then there is one more thing: where is the campaign related material in both Dungeon/ Dragon?
Living Greyhawk vanished with Polyhedron, but I am looking forward to find more Greyhawk-Adventures in Dungeon which can provide some extra background (maybe including new prestige classes in the adventure?). On the other hand neither Dragon nor Dungeon sport articles like Elminster's look at Faerûn...

I am sure that you will find a way to bring back some more in depth dm articles. In the meantime I am hoping that you don't forget your more D&D-experienced readers (there is an obvious increase of "newbie"-articles which is not wrong, but which experienced DM is interested in reading which gaming place to choose for setting up a new D&D campaign?)

Dungeon and Dragon so far always were one step ahead of other magazines and/ or D&D-related websites. I hope that they will prove soon again to not just being up to but actually being superior to them!

Greetings from Cologne, Germany,
Guenther