Dungeon Magazine, Dragon Magazine to go on hiatus

[Libertad]

From the editorial page of Dragon 327:

In years past, when we found ourselves at the lonely crossroads between game editions, the magazines simply went from one edition to the next with nary a breath in between. This time is different. As we turn our attention to the next D&D® rules set, we’re putting Dragon® and Dungeon® on hiatus.

The D&D magazines are going dark beginning in January. In other words, the December issues (#221 of Dungeon and #430 of Dragon) will be the last issues you see for a while. The magazines will continue on their present trajectories for the next few months, during which time we will answer questions such as the following: when will Dragon and Dungeon return, what form(s) will the magazines take, how much D&D content will the magazines publish, and how does one submit pitches for articles?

Thoughts?

[bhu]

potential ill news...

[X-Codes]

I think WotC has absolutely no idea what they're doing with D&D at this point, so it kinda makes sense that they'd reign everything in and figure out the plan.

[Keldar]

I'm surprised they aren't keeping it going to pacify the 4E fans some.  The subscriptions must have really tanked.

[Nunkuruji]

Question could be whether they're pulling that staff to work on Next books/content which they hedge is more valuable than the subscription, or axing them in the short term because the expense of their labor > revenue from subscriptions.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Not really a surprise ; heck Penthouse just went Bankrupt and they had a much larger and more aroused market.


If you throw together a list of the Top companies in a given field, they usually do not have a Magazine selling along with it.  The top Mags in a field are published by something else.  Example:  GM/Toyota/Ford vs. Consumer Reports or Motor Trend.

I'd bet though, that wotc isn't going to hand Dr/DuMag back to Paizo.

I wonder if CosPlay is gonna be a big enough The New Thing or trend, that it could be integrated into a "D&D and" magazine.