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April 23, 2007
No more Dungeon and Dragon magazines
Categories: Gaming
Given all that's going on in the world -- the Virginia Tech tragedy comes to mind -- and in my own corner of the planet (Eleanor, of course) feeling bad about a magazine seems a little silly. Yet I did feel a bit of sadness when Paizo publishing announced last Thursday that they had lost the rights to publish Dragon and Dungeon Magazines. Wizards of the Coast, who owns the rights, said that those magazines would no longer be published.
I had not bought either one of those magazines in awhile, but I read a whole lot of Dragon magazine back in middle and high school, when I was gaming regularly and when I wasn't. They always seemed a bit above me, in a good way, challenging my reading skills, and asking me to think harder about the game I loved. They had good articles and cool art. Now (or in a few months) that magazine won't be around any longer; that makes me a little sad.
This signifies a subtle but powerful shift in me and my relationship to gaming as a hobby, I think. I'm older, have a child now, work full time, and certainly don't game as much as I used to (okay, ever). But D&D seems to have changed a lot, too, and not really for the better. I am still struggling to put my finger on my own shift and how that's related to the shift in gaming/gamers. I'm still working on it.
Posted by Nakia at April 23, 2007 03:38 PM