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After visiting no less than five other websites and their corresponding forums I have noticed and rejoice that disapointment in WotC's recent move is internet wide. At least with regards to the Roleplaying industry. This has gotten me to thinking.
How much did I use my issues of Dungeon and Dragon. And I must say, until relatively recently with the inclusion of the Adventure Paths, that I did not use them hardly at all. Other than a good read these magazines did not have all that much effect on my campaign.
No this in no way means that my subscription to these magazines was a waste. Like others have said, they held me through the hard times. When I was in Iraq and had no other D&D outlet. When I returned from overseas to learn that everyone had moved or something else that prevented them from playing. Dungeon and Dragon were there the entire time.
But though I did not use them. No more than say earth science news or some other journal. I may not have used them, but I loved them. And I will miss them.
But the good news, for me, is that the best of the two magazines will be carrying on through Pathfinder. The Adventure Paths were the bast thing to grace the pages of either magazine in the entire time I read them. Vary rarely did the material in Dungeon or Dragon mesh with my particular campaign or style, but when that campaign came from the very pages things changed. This is what changed Dungeon and Dragon in the last couple years from a periodical that I enjoyed reading into game accessories that I used. It is that usefullness that paizo seems to be preserving in the form of Pathfinder.
After watching the WotC website and forums to see some kind of statement or announcement other than the now infamous "we loved them too, sorry to be the ones to kill them" and finding none, I realize that my needs are better served here at paizo than they ever were or will be elsewhere.
Much love for Paizo. Your professionalism and the quality of your customer service sets you apart by leaps and bounds.
-Tam
I agree with you a hundred percent. I grew up on DnD and coming back to it after many years it seemed to be a strange monster with all those feats and complete books. I was excited, but when I started buying from WOTC I felt like I was getting ripped off. So I started buying dungeon one of my favorite parts of the game, and was blown away with what paizo was doing with the Savage Tide Adventure path and than with in a month the news hit about the end of Dragon and Dungeon and I was blown away. The work Paizo did was the only real good thing I saw out there, and than it was taken away. Started reading all the posts and saw I am not the only one disappointed in the path that wizard is taking. So i jumped onto pathfinder.
I do not need three thousand monsters and twice that many feats. I need stories and settings to capture my imagination, just as the AD&D captured mine. I could care less about rules, if there is nothing behind them. I am a very busy person so I need help creating telling those stories and we have that help in paizo. Thank you so much for being there for all of us. I really need to thank you all for your assurance of the course of your products and talking to us as fellow gamers not just consumers.