Paizo Publishing, the publishers of Dragon Magazine, Star Wars Insider, Undefeated, and Dungeon Magazine, will no longer be creating a special 16-page adventure section for the subscriber edition of Dungeon Magazine.  Paizo editors began including the special section after they combined their d20 magazine Polyhedron with Dungeon.  The inclusion of d20 Mini-Games from Polyhedron in every other issue of Dungeon necessitated cutting a D&D adventure from Dungeon.  Since Paizo editors felt that subscribers to Dungeon would be upset with fewer D&D adventures than they signed on for, Paizo printed a special 16-page supplement and included it with subscriber copies of Dungeon.  Naturally retailers felt shortchanged by this maneuver and complained to Paizo.  Paizo's editors listened to retailer input and came up with a solution for the problem.  They are cutting back from 6 d20 Mini-Games a year to 4, restoring the full complement of Dungeon Adventures for all readers, and eliminating the special treatment for subscribers who will now receive the same issue of Dungeon/Polyhedron that is sold in stores.

Meanwhile the past two issues of Dragon Magazine, #309 and #310, have been among the best-selling issues of recent years.  Issue #309 (July) included a sampler DVD for Rhino Home Video's interactive D&D DVD, Scourge of Worlds (see 'A D&D Interactive DVD').  Forget about that lame D&D feature film, Scourge of Worlds is a DVD that really sells to gamers, and quite likely the harbinger of even more elaborate interactive DVDs that could well prove ever more attractive.  Issue #310 (August) has been equally popular thanks to the inclusion of the first ever Dungeon Master's Screen for D&D 3.5.