Wizards of the Coast announced that they won’t be extending their relationship with Paizo to keep Dragon and Dungeon Magazine going. In some ways this is a surprise because Dragon Magazine has been around for 30 years. On the other hand, they can accomplish the same thing on their website, and they’ve been doing so for quite some time. You wonder if this is going to set things up for Wizards.com to have a subscription based premium service on their website to try to make a little bit more cash. If the price is right, I’d go for it.
Both magazines will run through Septemeber and Dungeon will finish up their Savage Tide Campaign Path. In the meantime, Paizo is going to put out a high end publication called Pathfinder. I’ll be getting the first three issues come August so I’ll let you know what I think. Because my subscription ran through the date things were ending I had a few choices and I decided to check this out. They’re going to start a new adventure path (Rise of the RuneLords) and it looks like it’s more geared towards the DM. At $20 ($14 if you subscribe) an issue, I’ll have to think about picking this up regulary. It’s a bummer though because I’m most interested in issue four which features Wolfgang Baur and I’m only getting the first three because of my previous deal.
***UPDATE***
Here’s Owen Stephens take on the end of Dragon and Dungeon magazine. Good stuff from one of the professionals.