Black Pudding and other RPG Zines

Voros · May 25, 2017, 06:38:17 AM

Anyone read James V. West's Black Pudding zine? Based on B/X or LL, lots of cool cartoon fantasy art. I'd say #2 is better as it has some good monsters, magic items, NPCs and a funky mini-dungeon. The first issue isn't as strong content-wise with some character classes that strike me as pointless. He also has some bikini chainmail art but he seems to have been spared any blowback on that, perhaps because he has a taste for curvy women?

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Any other RPG zines folks are digging?

S'mon · May 25, 2017, 06:52:17 AM

Link?

Voros · May 25, 2017, 08:22:49 AM

Sorry, forgot to include it.

S'mon · May 25, 2017, 08:50:26 AM

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Thanks! Am currently attempting to download, DriveThruRPG kinda busy today...

S'mon · May 25, 2017, 08:53:01 AM

Quote from: S'mon;964280Thanks! Am currently attempting to download, DriveThruRPG kinda busy today...

OK that is pretty awesome... I'll have to kick them back some cash.

Voros · May 26, 2017, 04:09:37 AM

Yeah I donwloaded for free and read them and enjoyed them so I sent him some sheckels. Next time I'll pay for the next issue up front.

kedirimakmur1 · May 26, 2017, 09:56:35 AM

Quote from: Voros;964261Anyone read James V. West's Black Pudding zine? Based on B/X or LL, lots of cool cartoon fantasy art. I'd say #2 is better as it has some good monsters, magic items, NPCs and a funky mini-dungeon. The first issue isn't as strong content-wise with some character classes that strike me as pointless. He also has some bikini chainmail art but he seems to have been spared any blowback on that, perhaps because he has a taste for curvy women?

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thats very nice pic

Dumarest · May 26, 2017, 02:13:33 PM

I like the cartoons. Very evocative of old-time D&D games from when I was a kid and we were just having awesome, violent adventures in a fantastic land.

Off topic, but are there any non-D&D 'zines out there? Maybe for Traveller, The Fantasy Trip, Boot Hill?

bat · May 26, 2017, 03:32:34 PM

He just needs to come out with more! #3!

Just Another Snake Cult · May 26, 2017, 04:29:06 PM

I'll definitely check this out. The subculture of little OSR fanzines is one of the very few things in modern society that gives me any joy or hope for mankind. Wormskin and The Peridot are also really good.

Voros · May 26, 2017, 10:57:37 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;964509Off topic, but are there any non-D&D 'zines out there? Maybe for Traveller, The Fantasy Trip, Boot Hill?

Probably too niche of a niche but I coulda sworn I saw a TFT zine somewhere on G+ but it may have been an archive of an old zine, which pop up occasionally.

Most of the zines are pretty edition and even game neutral, I really dig Jacob Hurst's Hot Elven Smut and this MM-inspired Threat n' Ink looks pretty cool.

There's a guy in the RPG zines G+ group working on an Old West zine. That group is pretty slow but the posts when they do come are relevant and include content, some/most free or pay-what-you-want.

I notice there are a lot of DW and DCC zines too: Crawl, Crawljammer, Codex, Ape City. JMal is even producing a Tekumel zine with a contribution from Jeff Grubbs.

RPGPundit · May 28, 2017, 09:39:17 PM

The art is cute, if a bit nostalgic.

crkrueger · May 31, 2017, 03:44:02 AM

So in the days where digital publishing is easier than ever, lets go back to a print-only digest-sized book, at $10 for 28 pages and limit the print runs to make sure the information is completely unavailable in a couple years. How...artistic.

Harkening back to the Arduin days tugs the old nostalgia strings, but Jesus Wept...it's so pretentious...it's gotta be Jmal.

You can't even PoD? Get the fuck over yourself.