D&D 5E How to bring back Dungeon Magazine and Dragon Magazine - Crate Edition

[bmfrosty]

With Hasbro getting into the 'Crate' business I've been thinking about this.

What types of thinks would need to be in a $50 crate each month to make it worth it?

DM Crate (quarterly): (Value)
New issue of Dungeon Magazine: ($10)
Booster Box of figures (monsters): ($16)
Sheets of Monster Tokens: ($10)
Pack of Dice (chessex or similar): ($7)
DM's Guild Credit: ($5)
T-shirt (This part is more difficult than one would think): ($15)
Random (foam, organizer, battle mat, Whatever): ($15)

The Players crate (8 times yearly):
New issue of Dragon Magazine: ($10)
Booster Box of figures (heroes): ($16)
Pack of Dice (chessex or similar): ($7)
DM's Guild Credit: ($5)
T-shirt (This part is more difficult than one would think): ($15)
Random (foam, organizer, battle mat, Whatever): ($15)

I think of it like it would be windowed releases.

Crates get the issues first.
Subscribers get the issues 2-3 weeks later.
DM's Guild gets the issues 1-2 weeks after that.

Would you subscribe to such a thing?

 

[CydKnight]

Just my opinion so take it for what it's worth.

I can read Dragon magazine free here http://www.dragonmag.com/5.0/#!/articles/106375

I prefer buying pre-painted bricks for my figures.

I don't use Monster Tokens

I probably already have all the dice I will ever need and see no reason for getting a pack every month.

DM's Guild credit is nice.

T-Shirt might be cool depending on theme.

Random whatever is not my cup-of-tea. I like knowing what I am buying.

 

[Valdier]

All someone has to do is start a Dungeon Monthly magazine and split the profits among the contributors.

If I had the free time to manage it I would consider it as a side hobby.

20% for the magazine organization, and the other 80% split between up to 4 contributors per month the value of which is decided by quality and length of the dungeon contribution.

 

[bmfrosty]

I can read Dragon magazine free here http://www.dragonmag.com/5.0/#!/articles/106375

My big hope with it would be that it would be less of a house organ than the current incarnation.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I’m not a big fan of the subscription crates. The last thing I need is more random stuff that I may or may not like/use. But I’d sign up for a printed Dragon magazine crate in a heartbeat.

 

[DM Howard]

I’m not a big fan of the subscription crates. The last thing I need is more random stuff that I may or may not like/use. But I’d sign up for a printed Dragon magazine crate in a heartbeat.

Agreed. I'd prefer to not have more stuff, most of which is junk, cluttering up my house. Maybe if they paid me for it!

All that being said, I'd subscribe in an instant to a true Dungeon/Dragon magazine that is solely about 5th Edition D&D (with a little brand cross-pollination) in digital or otherwise.

 

[Valdier]

Agreed. I'd prefer to not have more stuff, most of which is junk, cluttering up my house. Maybe if they paid me for it!

All that being said, I'd subscribe in an instant to a true Dungeon/Dragon magazine that is solely about 5th Edition D&D (with a little brand cross-pollination) in digital or otherwise.

I would definitely subscribe to Dungeon. Unearthed Arcana is exactly what they should be doing for traditional Dragon magazine content (With published rules later). DM's guild has definitely *not* filled the niche for pre-written adventures. I mean, it's fine if you need 1000 level 1-4 adventures and nothing of higher level.

 

[ccs]

No.
If I were interested in the Dragon/Dungeon issues I'd just subscribe to them. It'd be a lot cheaper & I'd avoid getting a bunch of stuff I don't want/don't need/won't use.