Dragon+ Magazine Cancelled?

[tkdco2]

I stopped buying Dragon Magazine years ago, and I never subscribed to the online version. Still, it's the end of an era.

[Zenopus]

Ah, that's too bad. I rarely looked at it, but I was interviewed in issue 32 after I put out the Tower of Zenopus conversion for 5E & got to write out all of the answers myself, which sort of fulfilled my youthful dream of getting material into Dragon magazine.

zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-tower-of-zenopus-in-dragon-issue-32.html

[jeffb]

The online 4E subscription was quite good (or perhaps I mean " refreshing" ) with some very interesting (and some meh) adventures. I also liked the various articles that were expansions of the 4E cosmology, Nentir Vale, and different takes on previous D&D-isms (fluff/lore, etc)

I'm an outlier, but I did not care much for most of the Paizo era of Dragon. As 3.x got more bloated with pork, so did the magazines- the quality really went to crap, AFAIC, and I cancelled my subs to both Dungeon and Dragon.

That phone app thing for 5E was a joke. I thought it died years ago, actually.


Wanted to add, I think the last really good era for Dragon where I really enjoyed the issues each month was the 2E pre WOTC time period- early to mid 90s.

[Dohojar]

I read that interview when it came out Zenopus and honestly it was one of the few interviews I actually had any interest in. I have the Ghosts of Saltmarsh adventure book and it has been the only adventure book I have gotten the most use out of and I am still using it. Saltmarsh is where I started my current campaign with and the players are still living there (they claimed the haunted house after clearing it out and turned it into a inn called the Staggering Dragon). They haven't mentioned the tower yet and they are level 11 but it still might come into play.

[magremore]

Apologies for semi-hijacking the thread, as this is not to do with the OP, but Dohojar's comment, and the other thread about the upcoming movie, just got me thinking—and I am biased because The Sinister Secret was the second game I ever played in and the only adventure I ever ran for others as a kid—but man Saltmarsh would make for a great film. It's not the quintessential D&D setting, but it has broad appeal, mixing familiar tropes with intriguing details and characters. They could even get a trilogy out of it—the arc has rich metaphorical possibilities, and the social commentary, if done well/not made heavy-handed, would be rewarding.

Eh, maybe a mini-series.