| Mr. Joshua |
You know....I didn't like you guys at the start. It was all a little to glossy for my taste. I gave you at Paizo a chance though. I thought that you deserved at least that much, and I am glad that I did. It was different from the old mag, and change for an old gamer like me is a hard pill to swallow, but they were good changes. I know that now.
I started reading Dragon back in 1983, maybe 1984...I don't remember the cover, or the articles. I do however remember a feeling of grasping something great...of having in my hot little hand a key to something so large and so grand that it took my breath away. Oh...I also remember having it taken away from me for reading it in history class. Who new that my history teacher wasn't a gamer?
As I sit here now...much older...with alot more wrinkles...and alot more life experience I realize that feeling is pretty much gone. Such is life. The things that once made you happy, turned you on, or wound you up, those things grow commonplace, or are forgotten, or leave you. It's a fact of life, quite sad, but it happens. I really did enjoy reading dragon every month...but the wonder was gone. Damn it...where did it go? It was slowly choked out by the wonders of technology and real life.
So dear paizo people, (that I have grown to like over the past few years) I must admit that I will miss you. Things move on.
There is one thing that I will be sad for. Someday, my son or daughter, (the ultrasound won't be for another few weeks) will walk past my bookshelf. He or she will look up and say "Daddy...what are those magazines?" I will say "Honey...that was the best damn magazine...ever." When the poor child then ask where all the new issues are? What am I gonna say?
"Well child....they were eaten by a Wizard...he lived on the coast...."
Fare thee well O' Dragon of lore....you will be sorely missed.