D&d 3.5ish periodicals?

[kenobi65]

It's not really a peridical in the magazine sense, but I do publish a weekly single-sheet zine called Iridia. It's available in print and .pdf and it covers a few rplg system - D&D 3.5, Basic D&D and GURPS mostly. I's free, too.

And it's a very entertaining read.

I think the gist of this thread is this:

It's dang hard to make a go of it with a hard-copy gaming magazine these days. (Ask ChristianW; he used to publish a very nice little fanzine called Scrollworks.) Note that this isn't just a game-industry issue, either; many magazines, in all sorts of genres, are having a hard time of it.

If you're not a big game publisher, with the borrowed interest and official content from your products to draw readers, it's even harder.

 

[WampusCat43]

Polymancer Studios, from Canada, puts out Polymancer.

 

[Greg K]

It's not really a peridical in the magazine sense, but I do publish a weekly single-sheet zine called Iridia. It's available in print and .pdf and it covers a few rplg system - D&D 3.5, Basic D&D and GURPS mostly. I's free, too.

You can check up on the last 35 issues at www.IridiaZine.net.

What ever happened to scrollworks?

 

[helium3]

d20Zine! can be found here: http://enworld.rpgnow.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=402

Isn't that one basically defunct though? I just looked at the website (your website?) and it doesn't look like anything is going on there anymore.

 

[kenobi65]

Isn't that one basically defunct though? I just looked at the website (your website?) and it doesn't look like anything is going on there anymore.

Indeed, with a last issue of December 2003, it doesn't look too active...

 

[ChristianW]

What ever happened to scrollworks?

Scrollworks was a good rag, but it failed for the same reason that all magazines do - money. It was just too expensive to print, mail and produce. Artwork was the real killer.

I'm doing a little single-sheet (Iridia) now and it's great because it reminds me of the way S'works started out. When Scrollworks started, the first few issues were double-side 8.5" x 11" printed in the soutane font. (The same font from the old Tom Moldvay Basic D&D set.)

I send Iridia out in print and .pdf and I'm really happy to see about a 100 copies a month being read. That's not a lot, but it's as many as Scrollworks did, so hey!

Game on!

PS: Thanks Kenobi for the compliment!