No more Dungeon or Dragon magazines!!!

[Admin]

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paizo.com/paizo/news/v5748eaic9kh0

Paizo Publishing to Cease Publication of DRAGON and DUNGEON
Magazines to continue through September 2007
Yesterday, 11:00 AM
Paizo Publishing and Wizards of the Coast today announced the conclusion of Paizo?s license to produce DRAGON and DUNGEON magazines effective September 2007. Publication of DRAGON and DUNGEON will cease with issues number 359 and 150, respectively.

"Today the internet is where people go to get this kind of information," said Scott Rouse, Senior Brand Manager of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS?, Wizards of the Coast. "By moving to an online model we are using a delivery system that broadens our reach to fans around the world. Paizo has been a great partner to us over the last several years. We wish them well on their future endeavors."

"We at Paizo are very proud of the work we?ve put into DRAGON and DUNGEON during the past five years," says Erik Mona, Paizo's Publisher and Editor in Chief of DRAGON. "While we'll all miss working on these venerable magazines, our talented editorial and art staff as well as our phenomenal team of freelance contributors will continue to produce high-quality, exciting, new OGL releases that are aimed at supporting our existing customers and beyond. We look forward to sharing useful and provocative new products that support our favorite hobby."

Subscribers should visit paizo.com/transition to learn more about the future of their subscriptions. Multiple options will be available for customers whose subscriptions extend beyond the final issues of the magazines. The final issues will be DRAGON #359 and DUNGEON #150?both of which will contain special content commemorating the history of the these incredible magazines. The Savage Tide Adventure Path will conclude as planned in DUNGEON #150.

Paizo will continue to publish its popular GameMastery line of RPG accessories, including a new line of monthly OGL adventure modules beginning in June with Nicolas Logue's Crown of the Kobold King.

Paizo Publishing spun off from Wizards of the Coast's periodicals department in 2002. In its five years as publisher of DRAGON and DUNGEON, Paizo introduced popular features such as the The Shackled City, Age of Worms, and Savage Tide Adventure Paths, the Demonomicon of Iggwilv, Core Beliefs, and Critical Threats. Paizo published three official DUNGEONS & DRAGONS hardcover books?The Shackled City Adventure Path, The DRAGON Compendium, and The Art of DRAGON Magazine. In five years of publishing DRAGON and DUNGEON, Paizo received twelve Gen Con EN World RPG Awards (ENnies) and the 2004 Origins Award for Best Gaming Related Periodical.

ABOUT WIZARDS OF THE COAST
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ABOUT PAIZO PUBLISHING
Paizo Publishing?, LLC is a leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, and board games. Paizo's GameMastery line offers Game Masters fun and useful tools, such as Map Packs, Item Cards, and the new Pathfinder Adventure Path books, that improve their fantasy roleplaying experience. Titanic Games, Paizo's board game division, unites the greatest game designers to create compelling, challenging games like Kill Doctor Lucky and Stonehenge, the world's first Anthology Board Game?. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. In the five years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than a dozen major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.

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[Admin]

Here is the article where they talk about where they are going from the Dungeon & Dragon magazines...

paizo.com/paizo/news/v5748eaic9kh3

Introducing Pathfinder: Paizo's Adventure Path Monthly
Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path to debut this August.
Yesterday, 11:00 AM
Paizo Publishing announced today the creation of Pathfinder, a 96-page, perfect-bound, full-color softcover Adventure Path book printed on high-quality paper that releases in a monthly volume. Each volume contains an in-depth Adventure Path scenario, stats for about a half-dozen new monsters, and several support articles meant to give Game Masters additional material to expand their campaign. Because Pathfinder uses the Open Game License, it is 100% compatible with the world's most popular fantasy roleplaying game. Paizo plans to release Adventure Paths in six-volume arcs, meaning each year of Pathfinder will include two complete Adventure Paths. The first Pathfinder Adventure Path, Rise of the Runelords, will comprise the first six volumes of Pathfinder. A new Adventure Path will begin in Pathfinder #7.

"This August marks the beginning of a new era in fantasy roleplaying," says Erik Mona, Paizo?s Publisher. "With the experience of three popular Adventure Paths behind us, our peerless editorial and art staffs understand exactly what gamers need to run a challenging, exciting campaign experience. Pathfinder significantly improves upon our past efforts and sets a new standard for the tabletop RPG industry."

Pathfinder #1 launches this August with Paizo's newest Adventure Path, Rise of the Runelords. Runelords is a complete campaign that takes player characters from 1st level to 15th level and possibly beyond. It takes place in the frontier kingdom of Varisia, a realm of rugged steppes, haunted forests, and trackless mountains partially civilized to the south, but wholly wild and the domain of giants and monsters to the north. An ancient warlord from a forgotten age has awakened from a deathless sleep, and draws his cruel giant minions near as he prepares to rebuild his decadent empire. The PCs must uncover this sinister plot and prevent a terrible giant war from bringing ruin to their homeland, but in doing so, they run the risk of falling to the sins that brought the ancient empire of the Runelords to ruin. Rise of the Runelords features the diabolical creations of James Jacobs, Richard Pett, Nicolas Logue, Wolfgang Baur, Stephen S. Greer, and Greg A. Vaughan and features covers by superstar artist Wayne Reynolds.

"With the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path, I wanted to present a campaign that was strongly rooted in the classic RPG tradition, and one that focused on some of every GM's favorite menaces," says James Jacobs, Paizo's creative director for Pathfinder. "Rise of the Runelords follows an amazing progression that starts small with goblins and scales up in a hurry. By the end, the foes are immense and unforgettable. It's thrilling to call upon authors like Rich, Nick, Wolf, Steve, and Greg and on artists like Rob Lazzaretti and Wayne Reynolds?with their help, this will be the best Adventure Path yet!"

Every volume of Pathfinder will feature at least two support articles designed to bolster that volume's adventure, but the contents of these support articles can just as well serve any campaign. These support articles might be in-depth explorations of key cities, descriptions of important deities and their worshipers, ecological discussions of key monsters, explorations of the region in which the Adventure Path takes place, details on new magic items and spells, or even rules for how to handle certain types of in-game situations (such as how to maintain a stronghold). Each volume also contains an installment of the Pathfinder's Journal, an ongoing exploration of the world in which these Adventure Paths are set. These journals give you a wealth of inspiring background material you can take and use in your own campaign or to expand on the current Adventure Path. Finally, each Pathfinder will feature a bestiary of a half-dozen or so new monsters. Some of these new monsters will feature in the adventure in that volume, while others might just fit the themes of the adventure?they're provided for the Game Master to expand their game. Many of these monsters will be drawn from real-world myth, legend, and even cryptozoological sources, further adding a sense of tradition and verisimilitude.

Pathfinder Adventure Paths will take place in a new Paizo campaign setting that is currently in development. This setting will involve elements of classic sword and sorcery themes sure to appeal to longtime and brand-new gamers alike. Stay tuned to paizo.com to learn more about this exciting new campaign setting as it develops.

Pathfinder retails for $19.99 per volume and will be available at local game stores, bookstores, and online at paizo.com. Readers may also subscribe online at paizo.com on a month-to-month basis. New Pathfinder subscriptions are billed at a rate of 30% off the cover price per issue, plus shipping. A valid credit card is needed to subscribe to Pathfinder. Subscribers can cancel at any time. Subscribers will receive each monthly volume direct from Paizo, at a shipping rate of their choice, and need never worry about missing a volume. Subscribers will also receive a free PDF of each volume of Pathfinder (a $13.99 value!).

Visit paizo.com/transition for additional details.

[Jeff]

Those things have been around for over 30 years!!! Musta sucked having to tell them "Were pulling the plug."

[Ivy]

*waves hi to Jeff*

I can't imagine it either, nor the looks or stress WoTC must be going thru right now as the backlash of such news hits them now. Paizo has it golden at the moment, as they have been very interactive with the community about their upcoming Pathfinder series, and it seems to be going over much better than the few words that WoTC has released on the matter. WoTC has a PR nightmare on their hands at the moment.

Ivy

[Jeff]

HI!!!!

We gots more fodde...I mean friends to help Everyone!!

[Ivy]

Hey now I'm no kobold! lol

Although I am going to play one one of these days...teeheehee.


Ivy

[aaronthecow]

what about a wemic? thoughs are cool.

[Ivy]

I do believe my husband will be playing a wemic soon. That is one of his all-time favorite creatures. He likes the sheer power of them I do believe.


Ivy

[Admin]

The first time I played NeverWinter Nights he & Puros were playing Wemics...I have some neat screen shots!! He saved my behind many times!!

[Ivy]

Those two were crazy good, eh? And you can best believe I hear it from Bec a lot "When is someone going to put wemics in NWN2?!" LOL!

Nothing new on the front about what the new "digital initiative" from WoTC is going to entail. Right now they have a couple of WoTC people talking on the boards, giving vague answers to specific questions. Frankly it's just one more way of "mob control" if you ask me. Give folks a couple of WoTC employees to talk to, and they'll fall for it, thinking it gives them some sort of voice into WoTC. I've seen it happen before with other companies who make poor decisions, they send folks out to answer questions for a short amount of time, and then one day, *poof* they just stop coming around. Call my cynical, it's okay, but I have zero faith in the long-term standing of actual WoTC employees being visable on the boards there. They weren't there before this mess began, and suddenly now they show up? Yup that's mob control, that's not a planned course of action, no matter how they try and spin it otherwise.

It's quite crazy there.

Ivy