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Yes.
Because their reader feedback and dropping sales levels indicated that, despite your being in favor of Polyhedron and d20 games appearing in the mag, the large majority of Dungeon's readership did not share that view at all. Most readers want pure straight up D&D - and no Polyhedron.
Money talks - and this time, it spoke clearly.
I'm glad it is gone. I just subscribed for another year so Dungeon better stay as it is right now.
Peace and smiles :)
j.
Alas, I am now forced to find another source for maps of fire houses, movie theaters, and the Millenium Falcon to insert into my Underdark campaign.
The Dark Sun rules were the only ones that I found af any value. While some of the others were interesting to read, they were nothing I would have played.
Long Live DUNGEON!
ASEO out
I'm pretty sure all of us can make up villains.
I'm pretty sure all of us can make up adventures, too. Heck, I'm sure we can all make up our own campaign settings, and while we're at it even entire rulesets.
Your point?
why did it go away? Anyone know?
it went away b/c it should never have merged with Dungeon.
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Make no mistake: we here at Paizo were sad to see Polyhedron go away. It was a really tough decision to make, but in the end, it had to happen.
Of course, a lot of the fine folk who were working with us on the Poly side are still working with us in Dungeon (and Dragon as well!), so you can expect to see some cool stuff from them in the future.
Now, I'm obviously biased, but I like to think that the adventures in Dungeon are a lot less "cookie cutter" than you make out. You should take the time to read through some of the adventures rather than just "leaf through" the magazine; I think you'll get a kick out of the unique and interesting plots and characters that our writers come up with. Just in the last three issues, we've had a murder mystery adventure, an adventure involving a long-distance chase across a frozen wasteland, an adventure involving a short-distance chase across a waterfront clogged with barges and boats, an adventure with complex NPC relationships that relies on diplomatic solutions as often as combat solutions, and an adventure where the PCs have to evacuate a city before something bad happens. Having edited and developed all of these adventures, I can honestly say that you can't duplicate any of them by simply picking a random monster.
That said, I'm certainly all ears for more of these "big ideas" you're talking about, therogue5000. Are you just lamenting the loss of sci-fi material in the magazine? Is a mini-game about giant robots fighting each other to defend a city any more or less a good idea than a D&D adventure in which you use your own golems to defend a city from an attacking golem army?
Hm...well here's my take: I liked polyhedron because I thought it was cool...the same reason I buy your magazine to begin with. The first four or five mini games were great: Omega world, Pulp fiction (aka: sky captain and the world of tomorrow)and spell jammer were some of my favorites. Not that I ever RAN those settings, or even read them all the way through. But it was very cool, creative thinking. The kind of thinking that I and other gamers enjoy this hobby for. And maybe it may not have been run so much as imitated in normal D&D settings.
I understand market pressures must certainly drive your publishing decisions because at the end of the day you guys are there to make money, not good friends. But maybe in your office, you could start a Polyhedron bulletin board, not online, but like a real bulletin board (boy, you can tell i'm old now) and tag stuff up there that might be cool. Then when you end up with a real whiz bang, develop it.
You never can tell, it could be the next spycraft, which would be cool if you did too....
why did it go away? Anyone know?it went away b/c it should never have merged with Dungeon.
In total agreement, Diaglo.