Has it ever been considered to put the level of the adventure on the spine of the magazine? Something like:
"Mad God's Key (1)"
It just occurred to me that that would make life a bit easier for people with growing collections who want to look for the six first level adventures they have in their collection, but can't recall the names.
I'm a big ol' geek and make a spreadsheet, but this would be, going forward, another way of doing things. Feasable?
That'd be neat. Since old issues can't be edited, though, I wouldn't mind seeing a features on the website where you can search by level or perhaps a range of levels. If you searched for level 16 adventures, it would first show you any adventures published for level 16, and then any adventures of other levels that could be scaled up or down to level 16.
Might encourage people to buy back issues they don't have, just to get an adventure of the level they want. Dungeon really needs to take advantage of the fact that its back issues basically don't go out of date.
Both ideas would be handy things to have. Hope someone sees this thread.
Allow me to formally express interest in all the ideas presented so far...
Something I tried to do once and got flustered with was something similar in idea.
I went through the mags and tried to list out all the new spells and feats and put them on index cards for easier referencing so that I didn't have to thumb through the mags as often, as some of the older ones are starting to look somewhat like well loved core books.
Putting the adventure level on the spine would be a nice touch as alot of people (including Thanis and I) store their mags upright on bookshelves so we can read the spines. I'm grateful that they started putting the dates on the spine by the issue number because that helped me figure out where the special annuals and any notes that are not numbered fit in.
Now if only they would invent a Howard's Handy Bookshelf...