I miss magazines.
There was a time when you could walk into any shop and you’d find a plethora of gaming magazines in the used bins and on the new shelves. Video games, role-playing games, war games; it was all there, just waiting to be discovered by eager readers.
And eager I was.
Long before I first played Dungeons & Dragons I was already reading DRAGON Magazine and the RIFTER. I had dozens of Conan Magazines, used copies of Imagine, Polyhedron, White Dwarf, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and more. Then, somewhere along the way, they all started disappearing. The used book stores seemed to dry up and what I could find was on the Internet Archive and other archival websites.
Now I have gigs of space dedicated to the magazines I loved as a kid. But I’m never talking about them. I think it’s time to change that.
To that end, I’m going to begin talking about the magazines I’m reading on here. When possible I’m going to try and read them in order, but when I’m missing issues I’m just going to be missing issues. I’m not shelling out foolish amounts of money to read a magazine once and then put it away on a shelf to be forgotten about after.
Dragons Never Forget
I too miss magazines. Especially the smaller, more offbeat ones that covered things other than the ampersand game like FASA’s Stardate and GDW’s Challenge Magazines.
I’m so glad the Japanese are still into TRPG periodicals, with Role&Roll and GM Warlock being the two most prominent and interesting.
I also really miss the old OMNI.
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OMNI was so good!
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Quality periodicals are mostly a thing of the past. Much like quality RPG blogs…so get in gear, Man. I’ll trade you a ‘Backwoodsman’ for a ‘Dungeon’. Maybe an old ‘Boys Life’ from the ‘80s for a similarly aged ‘Polyhedron’? Never mind, the mail is just too damn expensive.
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