D&D Module Monday #6: Dragon Magazine (Best of: Volume 3)
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Just how important were Dragon (and Dungeon) to D&D?
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I think it cannot be expressed how much more interesting these were back in the day. There was no internet full of 2 billion pages of more information than you could absorb. So everything in one got examined over and over and really thought about, rather than read once and tossed aside. Plus, actual physical things you had until somethgn real happened to them rather than software vapor doomed to vanish or be restricted.
I'm really liking your channel so far. I like how you're basically going through your dad's collection book by book. Maybe one day my daughter will honor me in the same way.
One thing to keep in mind about those Point of View articles, is that the now-common tropes of elves and dwarves and orcs weren't something that was in the public consciousness at the time. People who had read Tolkien or maybe The Sword of Shannara (which was released in 1977), or, even more rarely, someone who had read some of the Scandinavian Sagas, had some idea of what a fantasy elf was, but if you asked the average person you would get a myriad of answers ranging from little faeries that looked like garden gnomes to, and probably most commonly, the mysterious creatures that made Santa's toys for Christmas. It could be argued that what we have come to think of as elves, dwarves and other fantasy heritages were basically cemented in the (to use a word I hate) zeitgeist of the modern popular consciousness by D&D and similar games, often via the video games which were inspired by D&D such a s Ultima nd Wizardry. There's a popular truism that says, "If you want to catch a criminal, you have to be able to think like one." Well, the same applies for fantasy "races". If you're interested in playing an elf as more than just a human with pointy ears, you need to know how to think like one, and, in my opinion, that's exactly what those articles did.
You are right, Dungeon magazine are deadly-dead for some extended period of time, while Dragon lived bit longer. Wizards resurected it in 2010-s in digital format (at some point there was even fancy mobile app version as well as nice single page web app version). But it was discontinued too, about one-two years ago
Those magazines, loved'em. Them were the days.
Sadly, Dragon+ the 5e restart of the magazine was restricted to its own app, making its preservation much harder than it should've been. Early on they published cool tinly things in it like fiction and in universe articles, but all of that quickly deteriorated into self-congratulatory interviews and advertisements. It was a sad sight. And now the magazines are gone apart from those ppl who cared to preserve them by extracting every article and compiling them in pdfs. Yet another missed opportunity by wotc.