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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9842909" data-attributes="member: 25818">I have a huge fondness for the gaming magazines of the hoary days of prehistory (ca. 1980s-1990s), and while the Web has pretty much spelled the death knell for gaming magazines (probably), I still go back to reread the old articles. I still remember my now-wife questioning how nerdy I was during a D&D game, and I was able to pull out an exact issue and approximate page where an article I read once and really wanted to use but could never get my players to buy into was printed. (It was "Who Gets the First Swing?" in Dragon #71.)By contrast, I forget everything. Last year, I forgot my birthday was coming up until the day before. I sometimes forget to take the life-saving medication I have to take every day. But I can remember the articles!I have over the last few years been putting together articles lists for various game systems I like (like this one for <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TM2QTwpHQ8bLidTusTmZN9XNaOL4bRQjDExL74AWNP8/edit?usp=drivesdk" target="_blank">Call of Cthulhu</a> -- still a work in progress), which caused me to track down a whole lot of foreign magazines I can remember reading about, but never actually getting to read. Some of them are pretty great, and I wish any US stores I'd visited carries some of them.The foreign editions of Dragon did not only carry translations of the US magazine; some of them had some good articles on games that were "fringe games" in the US but had a large share of the games market in their home country. There were also a huge number of foreign fanzines; I've come to conclusion every fanzine's first issue had two adventures that were for either AD&D (1st or 2nd edition, depending on the year of release), Call of Cthulhu, or Traveller -- every single one of them, unless it was a fanzine dedicated to a single game.You can still find a bunch of these online, usually put on there by the publisher for free for nostalgia. I need to use Google Translate to read them, but I love checking out the letters columns to see what sorts of debates people had at the time; spoiler, it's frequently, "ascending AC versus descending," "female gamers," and "fighters vs. wizards game balance." Some things never change!</blockquote>

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