D&D General What articles would a good & free, fanmade D&D magazine have?

[Maenalis]

What articles would you like, a good & free, fan made D&D magazine to have?

Would you want:

• Reviews of WotC products?
• Reviews of DMGuild pdfs?
• Fiction book reviews?
• Anime reviews?
• Fantasy movie reviews?
• Physical product highlights? (i.e. Dicetower, minis, DM screens etc.)
• New lore to already existing settings?
• New Settings?
• New crunch? (new subclasses, feats etc.)
• New monsters?
• New magic items?
• Rules variations? (New chase rules etc.)
• Community highlights (like summary of recent reddit posts or DnDBeyond forum posts)
• Short stories?
• Session reports?
• ...

What articles would you like, a good & free, fan made D&D magazine to have?

 

[Not a Decepticon]

I will just leave link to the amazing Threshold Magazine that does this for Mystara in particular.

 

[dave2008]

What articles would you like, a good & free, fan made D&D magazine to have?

Would you want:

• Reviews of WotC products?
• Reviews of DMGuild pdfs?
• Fiction book reviews?
• Anime reviews?
• Fantasy movie reviews?
• Physical product highlights? (i.e. Dicetower, minis, DM screens etc.)
• New lore to already existing settings?
• New Settings?
• New crunch? (new subclasses, feats etc.)
• New monsters?
• New magic items?
• Rules variations? (New chase rules etc.)
• Community highlights (like summary of recent reddit posts or DnDBeyond forum posts)
• Short stories?
• Session reports?
• ...

What articles would you like, a good & free, fan made D&D magazine to have?

I will just leave link to the amazing Threshold Magazine that does this for Mystara in particular.

Both of these seem like a good place to start!

 

[MichaelSomething]

Why not study previously successful magazine like things like EN5ider???

EN5ider: Professional DnD Content For Your Game

Weekly D&D supplements and adventures for less than a cup of coffee!

www.en5ider.com

 

[Maenalis]

Why not study previously successful magazine like things like EN5ider???

EN5ider: Professional DnD Content For Your Game

Weekly D&D supplements and adventures for less than a cup of coffee!

www.en5ider.com

Could you sum up what type of article it had (has)?
EN5ider is not free, thus it is not a "...free, fanmade D&D magazine..."

 

[Tigris]

Would you want:

• Reviews of WotC products?

Yes!

• Reviews of DMGuild pdfs?

More highlighting good ones. Not full reviews. More about examples of good ones and what they are about / how to include that.

• Fiction book reviews?

No

• Anime reviews?

No

• Fantasy movie reviews?

No

• Physical product highlights? (i.e. Dicetower, minis, DM screens etc.)

Maybe, but if also just highlighting good things

• New lore to already existing settings?

No!

• New Settings?

Maybe. If they are short or if its just 1 settting you have as a magazibe and then articles distributed over your run to make it more and more alive

• New crunch? (new subclasses, feats etc.)

No!

• New monsters?

Maybe, but only in the form of a cool encounter. So already useable encounter with cool (balanced) creature

• New magic items?

No

• Rules variations? (New chase rules etc.)

Maybe. Thinfs like "borrowing this rule drom system x / older edition. With description how and what for could be good.

Or just "hei like this can you make X even more fun"

• Community highlights (like summary of recent reddit posts or DnDBeyond forum posts)

No. Not reddit things. Maybe highlighting a cool project like a fanmade convention etc.

• Short stories?

If they fit well.

• Session reports?

Yes!


Else maybe cool character concepts (flavourfull and working bur not broken). Or ideas how to reflavour things in a cool way (rather than new classes etc.)

Maybe even set of premade characters which are balanced which could be used by gms for conventions/ one shots.


I think havinf your own 1 unique and cool setting you often reuse could be really nice.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Could you sum up what type of article it had (has)?
EN5ider is not free, thus it is not a "...free, fanmade D&D magazine..."

You get what you pay for.

 

[Maenalis]

You get what you pay for.

Could you elaborate?
Perhaps you have any suggestions for the question?

What articles would a good & free, fanmade D&D magazine have?​

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Could you elaborate?
Perhaps you have any suggestions for the question?

What articles would a good & free, fanmade D&D magazine have?​

I wouldn’t read a free magazine. If someone goes to the effort to make something for free it’s because they have an axe to grind.

I would be interested in a modestly priced magazine that paid its contributors.

 

[Tigris]

I wouldn’t read a free magazine. If someone goes to the effort to make something for free it’s because they have an axe to grind.

I would be interested in a modestly priced magazine that paid its contributors.

Many people like as a hobby to be creative. Some people are even good or amazing at creating things.


LIke there are amazing blogs by some people for free. Ao I dont see why creating a free magazine must be bad. I mean we even have things like linux which is free, or git, or firefox etc.


I do think a free magazine should be different than a paid one, thats why my preference above on certain aspects.


And from something paid there always can become a commercial product if its good.