My Work on Other Sites
D&D,
publishing
I just remembered the other day, that I've actually had some of my work posted up on sites around the web. These two are from The Diamond Throne an Arcana Unearthed / Arcana Evolved fan site. Not too bad for a 19 year old.
Dungeon & Dragon Follow-up
publishing
I've been thinking it over, and yet I cannot come up with any situation where I will find more value out of a subscription service to online content will be more use then a real physical magazine I can actually use at the gaming table.
I've tried to tell myself that perhaps I will get better content, but then again I made the mistake of buying "The Shattered Gates of Slaughtergard" and one of the Eberron adventures, "The Voyage of the Golden Dragon"... these are actual products that WotC tried to sell that have so little substance to their random-encounter dungeons that I don't believe Dungeon would have ever printed them....
The bottom line is that WotC employs a staff of writers. Dungeon takes submissions from the whole community. No matter how many writers WotC has, they are never going to have as many creative voices available as Dungeon had; if they did then they would have to be employing every single gamer in the world..
WotC will never ever be able to match Dungeon and Dragon. Not now, not ever. Its a simple matter of how they gather their material, and WotC thinking they can force sales by limiting people's options really cheeses me off.
Dungeon & Dragon Magazines
publishing
Ok, so Paizo Publishing has announced that Wizards of the Coast has yanked the rug out from under their publishing rights so that WotC can pursue online content...
Thats not exactly fair, in truth their contract simply was not renewed, but as a fan of both Dungeon and Dragon magazines, I can say that I officially hate this move. I practically grew up with Dungeon & Dragon magazines, and my whole introduction to D&D was buying a Dragon magazine years before I ever even played a game. This summer I'm moving into my first semi-permanent home since highschool, and one of the things I was going to do was finally get subscriptions...
This is like saying ok, in order to pursue diet colas, Pepsi is getting rid of all non-cola sodas... Dungeon and Dragon are essential parts of the D&D experiance, at least for people like me, and it makes me angery that a product that has run for over 300 issues and has practically helped define the game is going to be taken down so WotC can demand a subscription for what will probably be the same junk that they have up now for free.
