Gygax Magazine Proposed Contents

[john112364]

If everyone recalls last November a stir was caused when it came to light that a magazine calling itself "Gygax Magazine" by TSR was coming out in the near future. Well, I was one of the (I'm sure many) people who signed up for email updates. Today I got an email with a sneak peak of the contents of the first issue. It looks interesting just judging by the contents. I'm interested to see the articles. If nothing else they are generating lots of publicity .They also stated tat the first issue will be released in a few weeks.

Here's what the contents are:

The Cosmology of Role Playing Games by James Carpio
Still Playing After All These Years by Tim Kask
Leomund's Secure Shelter by Len Lakofka
The Ecology of the Banshee by Ronald Corn
Bridging Generations by Luke Gygax
The Gygax Family Storyteller by Ernie Gygax
Keeping Magic Magical by Dennis Sustare
Gaming With a Virtual Tabletop by Nevin P. Jones
DMing for Your Toddler by Cory Doctorow
Great Power for ICONS by Steve Kenson
Gaming Through the Generations by Ethan Gilsdorf
Between the Dungeons by Ernie Gygax
Talents Off the Front Line by Dennis Detwiller
Adaption Decay by Michael Tresca
Gnatdamp: A Sanctuary in the Swamp adventure by Michael Curtis
The Kobold's Cavern - a special section edited by Wofgang Baur of Kobold Press:
---A Magical Miscellany for AGE by Randall Hurlburt
---Scaling Pathfinder Combat Feats by Marc Radle
---An AGE of Great Inventions by Rodrigo García Carmona
Comic - Marvin the Mage by Jim Wampler
Comic - What's New with Phil & Dixie by Phil Foglio
Comic - The Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew

 

[Grazzt]

Impressive. Several old school names on the list I see.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Impressive. Several old school names on the list I see.

Agreed. I haven't been paying any real attention to this, until now. Will it be issued in paper format?

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

The comics look intriguing. Special run of OOTS and Phil & Dixie?

 

[JeffB]

Anything with P&D is a must buy for me, assuming it is a hardcopy.

Tim, Len, Dennis, and Mike Curtis might sway me to even buy a PDF!

 

[john112364]

Agreed. I haven't been paying any real attention to this, until now. Will it be issued in paper format?

I believe they said print and PDF, though I don't have a link. So I could be mistaken.

 

[Mark CMG]

Tim Kask mentioned this on his Facebook page today 12-17-2012 (as a related bit of information that includes a print run count for the first issue) -

An open response to potential and would-be advertisers in Gygax #1.

Please don't feel bad--we did everything on a direct-contact basis, trying to keep the lid on. There were no rules: the original plan was that we would create an exemplar, in secret, then spring it on the world. The leak before Thanksgiving killed that idea. #1 will have a somewhat limited print-run--5000 hard copies, but after that, the sky is the limit. This is a great deal of speculation on our part: that we would find advertisers, that there was still a market for a tangible-copy product, that we will find distribution that we can live with, and so on. Cannot add space now, it goes to press this week.

 

[Daztur]

Did any information ever come out about the price? If the PDF isn't stupidly expensive I'm buying this.

 

[trancejeremy]

Perhaps aptly (given the name of the magazine), the only thing out of listing that interests me are the articles from the Gygaxes. I guess maybe the Michael Curtis adventure, though I think he's mostly been doing DCC RPG lately, which I really don't like.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Still not much info on how to actually buy the sucker!

And I guess the Kobold Section are bits left over with the demise of KQ, at least they are seeing the light of day