The magazine I found was Shadis. As soon as I saw the cover again, I fondly remembered many afternoons spent reading it. By the time I discovered the magazine they had already reached issue 13 shown to the right and it came out quarterly. Over the next year they experimented with a few different formats like the Shadis Presents half issues The interior pages were anything but glossy— kind of newspaper like stock. The contents, though, were interesting and varied.
In issue 14 they explained their goals— to support games of all kinds and never to become just a house organ. When they started producing their own games years later, they were cautious about reviewing them. The contents of the magazine seem like a microcosm of the rpg focused blog world today. Despite a wealth of great ideas between the covers, I rarely managed to work much into the games I was GMing or playing in at the time.
Is there a magazine out there that does the same thing today? I know that I appreciated their system neutral articles [a lot like Treasure Tables, now that I think of it], but would search the internet [or look at my incoming feeds] for similar inspiration today.
Scott is an engineer turned gnome and game store owner. He lies awake at night building intriguing worlds and plotting your character's demise. I think print magazines, especially RPG themed ones, are on their way out because the cost to produce outstrips the returns. Online articles are much easier and require less graphical content to look professional. Still, like Scott points out about shadis, a lot of gamers are going to care more about the content.
A lot of the content in Shadis kind of survives in the back pages of Knights of the Dinner Table. The game reviews are almost identical in format. The good, the bad, and the ugly, got its start in Shadis days, etc. I think I too am a bit nostalgic for the old gaming magazines. I was a friend of Shadis. But those magazines were sold as part of my complete Shadowrun 2nd Edition purge back in the late nineties. I miss Dungeon magazine more than anything.
There were a lot of maps to steal in those adventures. It is a real time saver when one can steal a map instead of drawing one out or attempting to use something like Campaign Cartographer HAH! I have seen a lot of RPG magazines, but that was the classiest of them.
But the day of magazines is over, as is the day of the newspaper. I subscribe to Polymancer magazine. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.
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