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Ian Livingstone takes a moment to compare sales with popularity on the RPG scene. Recent sales data shows the most well selling games are: D&D, AD&D, Traveller, The Fantasy Trip, Top Secret, Chivalry and Sorcery, Tunnels and Trolls, Runequest, Space Opera and Arduin Grimoire, in that order...

In a shorter editorial this month Ian Livingstone shares his joy at the growth of Games Day. He claims it is the largest of its kind in the world but doesn’t specify what kind that is. Gen Con has been running much longer (Essen Spiel won’t be appearing until 2011) but was it bigger at the time...

As well as 7th Sea 3 (posted earlier) I'd offer "Pumpkin Spice" by Archeron Games. Its a cosy game based on Kiki's Delivery Service where you are witches running a café helping the community (which helps magic). https://www.acheron.it/en/pumpkin-spice-a-magically-cozy-rpg-info/ I was gutted...

Picture courtesy of OathOn - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, File:Amish style families at the Rochester Medieval Festival and Son et Lumières.jpg - Wikimedia Commons One of the things that often gets forgotten in many games is that the player characters have a family. Unless they are a robot or sprung...

7th Sea third edition - Studio Agate Bit of a way to go but may make 2026 all going well. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agate/7th-sea-ttrpg-a-new-journey

This month Ian Livingstone notes that times are changing in the industry. In the 70s you could pretty easily create a game and get it out there, and expect sales in a small market with a growing customer base. But now the quality in terms of design and production are increasing, as well as the...

This is another tabletop role-playing game I picked up at Gen Con this year, mainly so I could read it to answer the questions we were getting on the Modiphius stand. While Modiphius does distribute the game, it’s been created by Haunted Table, a new company made up of professional GMs. The game...

It’s finally happened! On the 5th anniversary of the magazine, first released in August 1977, White Dwarf goes monthly! Now at least I can write “this month” as well as “this issue”. It’s a great step forward and marks the last step for the magazine to be a full pro-zine, also establishing it...

This tabletop role-playing game is one of the gems I picked up at Gen Con this year, from Eerie Games. I’m not familiar with their other products, but this was pointed out by a friend of mine so I checked it out and quickly found myself buying a copy, as well as a tarot deck as they have a...

Its White Dwarf’s 5th birthday! So, as is traditional they include a feedback coupon this issue for readers to air their thoughts. They will actually be adding one every issue now, basically offering an option to give each article a mark out of ten. As well as breaking open a few cases of ale...

In this issue, Ian Livingstone discusses a new Dungeons and Dragons computer game (cartridge) released for the Atari 2600, the elite gaming console of the early 80s. There is also a mention of a new AD&D colouring book. These days we have an array of plush beholders, Lego mimics and D&D...

Put simply it is a name designed to cover both fantasy and science fiction. White Dwarf being the name of a type of star and the fantasy character who appears on the contents page. He also mentions that he asked readers about RPG themes they would like to see in the future, but had a...

Ian Livingstone does a very short editorial asking what genres might be covered in the future of gaming, although he doesn’t get much of an answer. On the Cover A group of soldiers put up a mostly valiant fight against a group of huge robot warriors. Most of the robots seem to be taking severe...

Now that our look at White Dwarf has reached the issues where it is firmly established, I caught up with Lew Pulsipher, game designer and EN World columnist, who was one of the first writers for the nascent magazine. Andrew Peregrine (AP): So I suppose the first question should be, how did...

They have also had a good response for more articles and expect to go monthly next year (1982). Games Day 81 was also a lot of fun and continues to grow, as does the new store in Birmingham. On the Cover A group of soldiers take defensive positions around the landing ramp of their spacecraft...