farewell2kings wrote:
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When you consider shipping, you're paying nearly a third of a year's subscription for a single magazine that you hope contains an adventure you can use.
I hate to be a total Paizo corporate suck-up, but really, $40 a year for hundreds of pages of adventures, tons of maps, tons of NPC's, ideas too many to count...that's really not a lot of money considering what you get for it.
I think your approach would be unnecessarily frustrating, because even with online reviews, the "one" issue you bought for $10 with shipping still may not be "exactly" what you're looking for...but a year's worth of Dungeon magazine would give you a full campaign for two or three adventuring parties.
I'm sorry but I have to agree with HK on this. An international subscription to Dragon is more than $60 as opposed to the $40 you imply, and although still not a huge amount of money it does make commercial sense just to buy the odd magazine if you only use one or two adventures per year.