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Best game magazine ever?

Started by Dominus Nox, December 10, 2006, 06:45:32 PM

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Dominus Nox

#15
December 10, 2006, 09:34:57 PM
Quote from: James McMurrayDragon Magazine, back when thye had a section deoted to Sci-fi and Superhero RPGs.

Ah yes, the Ares section. I remember it. Good call.
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#16
December 10, 2006, 09:37:15 PM
Quote from: David RI would say White Dwarf in the very early days. Dave Langford's spite was always welcomed. Solid coverage on a variety of games. Interesting well thought out articles. Then it become a toy catalogue.....

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#17
December 10, 2006, 09:59:21 PM
Thought it has waxed and waned, I can't think of a gaming magazine I'd regard more highly that Dragon through its run.

Some other mags have had moments of brilliance... White Dwarf (pre-Warhammer era, of course), White Wolf (pre-WoD, natch), Shadis, Challenge and a few others. But most did not last long enough to distinguish themselves to me.

Close second to pre-Challenge JTAS.
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#18
December 10, 2006, 10:46:29 PM
Quote from: Caesar SlaadClose second to pre-Challenge JTAS.

Yeah, the JTAS was pretty nifty. Though focused only on Traveller, it really showed how to do a game magazine right. As with most Traveller products of the LBB era, JTAS was lean and mean, providing just enough detail for whatever a given article was about to be useful, without larding everything down with fluff.
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December 10, 2006, 11:24:54 PM
Space Gamer is the one I enjoyed the most.

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December 11, 2006, 12:25:15 AM
Quote from: YamoOdd that you of all people would say that. Other than Princess Arc, the latter TSR era of the mag can be pretty low-regarded due to general Swinishness.

The "latter TSR" era of the magazine CAN be disregarded, everything after the very earliest 90s, which was when the Princess Ark series came to an end. If I recall correctly, the last Princess Ark installment was in 1992, and the magazine went straight downhill from there.

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December 11, 2006, 12:34:51 AM
What I miss most was the 'shotgun" style a lot of old game mags used: They covered so many games and had so many types of articles, everything from scenarios to new gear to editorials and so on that you were bound to like something in each mag.

Now with most mages signle company/game mouthpieces, meh. if you like one thing over and over they're OK, if you want varieyt, you're hosed.
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#22
December 11, 2006, 09:51:59 AM
1) JTAS.
2) Challenge
3) Paizo´s Dungeon
4) Online JTAS
5) Zauberzeit, German General gaming Mag.
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#23
December 11, 2006, 09:57:03 AM
I love many different gaming mags and my Dragon CD-ROMs are a prized possession, but Different Worlds really had the mojo.  The Dungeoneer was also fabulous, but a lot more dated these days.
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#24
December 11, 2006, 10:01:58 AM
Quote from: Caesar SlaadWhite Wolf (pre-WoD, natch)
Eh, "pre-Inphobia", you mean? Because the phrase "White Wolf before the World of Darkness" doesn't make much sense...
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December 11, 2006, 10:02:47 AM
Early to mid 90s Dragon Magazine.  It rocked.
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#26
December 11, 2006, 10:04:03 AM
Quote from: GrimGentEh, "pre-Inphobia", you mean? Because the phrase "White Wolf before the World of Darkness" doesn't make much sense...

White Wolf magazine was a generalist mag early in its history.  I owned an issue at one time that featured spaceships poaching brontosauruses on the cover.  Among the contents was a neat little sci-fi scenario that would have worked well in Traveller.
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#27
December 11, 2006, 10:10:23 AM
Quote from: jrientsWhite Wolf magazine was a generalist mag early in its history.
So the company later took its name from the magazine, which (I'm guessing) must have been published in the late eighties?
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#28
December 11, 2006, 10:12:46 AM
Quote from: GrimGentSo the company later took its name from the magazine, which (I'm guessing) must have been published in the late eighties?

That sounds about right.
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Gabriel

#29
December 11, 2006, 10:23:33 AM
I was a Dragon Magazine fan of the 80s.  I liked the variety.  Even the advertisments were interesting to me back then.

When they killed the variety and started skewing it towards nothing but D&D, it lost it's appeal to me.  Dragon was always a cyclical magazine.  You'd see the same kind of articles every so often because it would be new and interesting to the people just picking the mag up and older readers like me were supposed to quit reading.  Everything became the same old, same old types of D&D articles which I had already read, so the magazine quit being anything inspiring or interesting.
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