Thondor
I run Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace
For various purposes I'd like to compile a list or index of all print magazines that deal with RPG's. Of course I expect that D&D related magazines will receive the most comprehensive treatment.
The attempt is to inumerate the following characteristics of each magazine:
Name; average page count; subject area; frequency; number of issues to date; available in .pdf, ("newstand") price, subscription price, website
Responders should feel free to offer corrections, new information, tell me what I've missed, and wax poetic about the magazines they like.
The short version:
Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine
Level Up
Crusader
Fight On! (magazine)
Kobold Quarterly
DragonRoots
KnockSpell
The Iridia Zine
HarnQuest
Signs and Portents
Polymancer
Paladin ???? still need details
The detailed version:
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DragonRoots
Average page count: 70
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: 4 (including # 0)
Price: 7.95
Subscription: 4 back issues 32 (USA), 39 (Canada), 42 (overseas) current 4 issue 45 (USA), $50 (Canada), $53 (Overseas)
Available in .pdf: all print issues come with a .pdf version.
Subject area/content: D&D. The current goal is 50/50 4th edition/3rd edition.
Website: DRAGON ROOTS
Kobold Quarterly
Average page count: 70 ???
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: 8
Price: 7.99
Subscription: 4 issues 15.99 (.pdf), 27.99 (print +.pdf) . . . shipping included?
Available in .pdf: 5.99
Subject area/content: D&D. The current goal is 50/50 4th edition/3rd edition. I think ??
Website: Kobold Quarterly
Fight On! (magazine)
Average page count: 70 . . . most recent issue was 150
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: 3
Price: most recent 10.50
Subscription: not yet?? Is available through lulu.com
Available in .pdf: yes, most recent price 7.50 (release print versions first).
Subject area/content: Old school RPG's. Mostly in the vain of 1e AD&D, Basic D&D and their contemporaries.
Website: Fight On! magazine - Home Page
Crusader
Average page count: 32, now 36
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: 17
Price: 3.50
Subscription: 12 month $36 (USA), $48 (Canada), $74.50 (Outside NA)
Available in .pdf:
Subject area/content: Castles and Crusades and other gaming goodness.
Website: www.trolllord.com/crusader
Level Up
Average page count: 40
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: 0
Price: 2
Subscription: ?
Available in .pdf: ?
Subject area/content: 4th edition D&D.
Website: Goodman Games
Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine
Average page count: 80
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: 148
Price:
Subscription: 12 issue $48 (USA), $66 (Canada), $98 (Other)
Available in .pdf: ??
Subject area/content: KotDT comic + over half gaming content.
Website: Kenzer & Company
HarnQuest
Average page count: 48
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: ??
Price: 24.99 (for an issue mailed to you)
Subscription: charged only 2-3 weeks before receiving issue
Available in .pdf: no
Subject area/content: HarnMaster and HarnWorld
Website: Columbia Games: Wargames, Dixie, and Harn Roleplaying
The Iridia Zine
Average page count: 2 (for single sheets); 16 (for digests)
Frequency: Weekly
Number of issues to date: 90
Price: $.50
Subscription: $2/month
Available in .pdf: free
Subject Area: Iridia's tagline is "role-playing games and miniatures, old and new." Issues have supported D&D 3.5, Basic D&D, Labyrinth Lord, AD&D 2e, GURPS 4e, Star Frontiers and Twilight 2000. Miniatures and terrain building have been covered as well.
Website: The Iridia Zine
KnockSpell
Average page count: 61p (1st issue)
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: 1
Price: 10.75 (+ shipping order through Lulu.com)
Subscription:
Available in .pdf: yes for 3.00
Subject area/content: Old school gaming focused primarily on Basic D&D clones Swords & Wizardry and Labrinth Lord with some OSRIC/1e AD&D. "Magazine of the Swords & Wizardry 0e Project, old-style OGL gaming, and retro-clone fantasy gaming."
Website: Swords & Wizardry home page or Swords and Wizardry's Storefront - Lulu.com
Signs and Portents
Average page count: 74
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: 66 (issues 26-53 were divided into 2 issues, one RPG, one Wargaming)
Price: in pounds 3.00
Subscription: ??
Available in .pdf: most recent issues are free in pdf
Subject area/content: Support for all things Mongoose. Both RPG's and wargames
Website: www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/series.php?qsSeries=13 or www.mongoosepublishing.com
Polymancer
Average page count: 48
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: ??
Price: ??
Subscription: 24($ Canadian) + shipping
Available in .pdf: no
Subject area/content: General RPG resources for any game. This includes Fantasy RPG's as well as other kinds of RPG's. Little crunch, the crunch that exists is often in 'Mojo' a universal house system.
Website: www.polymancerstudios.com/polymancer and MySpace.com - Polymancer Studios - 101 - Male - Montreal, CA - www.myspace.com/polymancer
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special note: I'd be particularly interested in hearing about a few non-fantasy RPG magazines.
While were at it we might as well get those e-magazines up here two:
The short version:
d20 Zine e (Dead)
Footprints e
Star Frontiersman (e)
Oerth Journal e
PhoenixLore e
Polyglot e
The detailed version:
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PhoenixLore e
Average page count: 105
Frequency: ??
Number of issues to date: 2
Price: free
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: only
Subject area/content: 4e Dungeons and Dragons??
Website: www.phoenixlore.com
Oerth Journal e
Average page count: ?
Frequency: twice annually
Number of issues to date: 24
Price: free
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: only
Subject area/content: The world of Greyhawk . . . (AD&D world)
Website: www.oerthjournal.com
Star Frontiersman (e)
Average page count: ??
Frequency: irregular
Number of issues to date: 10 (since march 2007)
Price: Free (can purchase 1-6 via lulu.com for 10.80 +shipping)
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: yes
Subject area/content: TSR's old sci-fi RPG Star Frontiers. The website also hosts a free version of the rules.
Website: www.starfrontiersman.com
Footprints e
Average page count: 54 (most recent)
Frequency: ??? Quarterly??
Number of issues to date: 14
Price: free
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: only
Subject area/content: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (1st edition).
Website: www.dragonsfoot.org
d20 Zine e (Dead)
Average page count: ??
Frequency: quarterly
Number of issues to date: 6 (and there will be no more)
Price: free
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: only
Subject area/content: magazine established to be an Open Content resource for GameMasters and fans who use the d20 Rules Gaming System.
Website: you can download them at rpgnow . com RPGNow.com - DragonWing Games - - The leading source for indie RPGs
PolyGlot e
Average page count: 50?
Frequency: Bi-Monthly (in this case twice a month)
Number of issues to date: 14
Price: free
Subscription: yes (in html)
Available in .pdf: yes
Subject area/content: Newsletter about the gaming industry, both RPG and Miniatures/Wargaming. Discusses what's new with gaming companies.
Website: </title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-9"> <link href="css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <style> BODY{ CURSOR: url(templates/g15/images/cursor2.cur); } .style1 {color: #000000} </style> <me
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The attempt is to inumerate the following characteristics of each magazine:
Name; average page count; subject area; frequency; number of issues to date; available in .pdf, ("newstand") price, subscription price, website
Responders should feel free to offer corrections, new information, tell me what I've missed, and wax poetic about the magazines they like.
The short version:
Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine
Level Up
Crusader
Fight On! (magazine)
Kobold Quarterly
DragonRoots
KnockSpell
The Iridia Zine
HarnQuest
Signs and Portents
Polymancer
Paladin ???? still need details
The detailed version:
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DragonRoots
Average page count: 70
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: 4 (including # 0)
Price: 7.95
Subscription: 4 back issues 32 (USA), 39 (Canada), 42 (overseas) current 4 issue 45 (USA), $50 (Canada), $53 (Overseas)
Available in .pdf: all print issues come with a .pdf version.
Subject area/content: D&D. The current goal is 50/50 4th edition/3rd edition.
Website: DRAGON ROOTS
Kobold Quarterly
Average page count: 70 ???
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: 8
Price: 7.99
Subscription: 4 issues 15.99 (.pdf), 27.99 (print +.pdf) . . . shipping included?
Available in .pdf: 5.99
Subject area/content: D&D. The current goal is 50/50 4th edition/3rd edition. I think ??
Website: Kobold Quarterly
Fight On! (magazine)
Average page count: 70 . . . most recent issue was 150
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: 3
Price: most recent 10.50
Subscription: not yet?? Is available through lulu.com
Available in .pdf: yes, most recent price 7.50 (release print versions first).
Subject area/content: Old school RPG's. Mostly in the vain of 1e AD&D, Basic D&D and their contemporaries.
Website: Fight On! magazine - Home Page
Crusader
Average page count: 32, now 36
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: 17
Price: 3.50
Subscription: 12 month $36 (USA), $48 (Canada), $74.50 (Outside NA)
Available in .pdf:
Subject area/content: Castles and Crusades and other gaming goodness.
Website: www.trolllord.com/crusader
Level Up
Average page count: 40
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: 0
Price: 2
Subscription: ?
Available in .pdf: ?
Subject area/content: 4th edition D&D.
Website: Goodman Games
Knights of the Dinner Table Magazine
Average page count: 80
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: 148
Price:
Subscription: 12 issue $48 (USA), $66 (Canada), $98 (Other)
Available in .pdf: ??
Subject area/content: KotDT comic + over half gaming content.
Website: Kenzer & Company
HarnQuest
Average page count: 48
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: ??
Price: 24.99 (for an issue mailed to you)
Subscription: charged only 2-3 weeks before receiving issue
Available in .pdf: no
Subject area/content: HarnMaster and HarnWorld
Website: Columbia Games: Wargames, Dixie, and Harn Roleplaying
The Iridia Zine
Average page count: 2 (for single sheets); 16 (for digests)
Frequency: Weekly
Number of issues to date: 90
Price: $.50
Subscription: $2/month
Available in .pdf: free
Subject Area: Iridia's tagline is "role-playing games and miniatures, old and new." Issues have supported D&D 3.5, Basic D&D, Labyrinth Lord, AD&D 2e, GURPS 4e, Star Frontiers and Twilight 2000. Miniatures and terrain building have been covered as well.
Website: The Iridia Zine
KnockSpell
Average page count: 61p (1st issue)
Frequency: Quarterly
Number of issues to date: 1
Price: 10.75 (+ shipping order through Lulu.com)
Subscription:
Available in .pdf: yes for 3.00
Subject area/content: Old school gaming focused primarily on Basic D&D clones Swords & Wizardry and Labrinth Lord with some OSRIC/1e AD&D. "Magazine of the Swords & Wizardry 0e Project, old-style OGL gaming, and retro-clone fantasy gaming."
Website: Swords & Wizardry home page or Swords and Wizardry's Storefront - Lulu.com
Signs and Portents
Average page count: 74
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: 66 (issues 26-53 were divided into 2 issues, one RPG, one Wargaming)
Price: in pounds 3.00
Subscription: ??
Available in .pdf: most recent issues are free in pdf
Subject area/content: Support for all things Mongoose. Both RPG's and wargames
Website: www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/series.php?qsSeries=13 or www.mongoosepublishing.com
Polymancer
Average page count: 48
Frequency: Monthly
Number of issues to date: ??
Price: ??
Subscription: 24($ Canadian) + shipping
Available in .pdf: no
Subject area/content: General RPG resources for any game. This includes Fantasy RPG's as well as other kinds of RPG's. Little crunch, the crunch that exists is often in 'Mojo' a universal house system.
Website: www.polymancerstudios.com/polymancer and MySpace.com - Polymancer Studios - 101 - Male - Montreal, CA - www.myspace.com/polymancer
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special note: I'd be particularly interested in hearing about a few non-fantasy RPG magazines.
While were at it we might as well get those e-magazines up here two:
The short version:
d20 Zine e (Dead)
Footprints e
Star Frontiersman (e)
Oerth Journal e
PhoenixLore e
Polyglot e
The detailed version:
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PhoenixLore e
Average page count: 105
Frequency: ??
Number of issues to date: 2
Price: free
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: only
Subject area/content: 4e Dungeons and Dragons??
Website: www.phoenixlore.com
Oerth Journal e
Average page count: ?
Frequency: twice annually
Number of issues to date: 24
Price: free
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: only
Subject area/content: The world of Greyhawk . . . (AD&D world)
Website: www.oerthjournal.com
Star Frontiersman (e)
Average page count: ??
Frequency: irregular
Number of issues to date: 10 (since march 2007)
Price: Free (can purchase 1-6 via lulu.com for 10.80 +shipping)
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: yes
Subject area/content: TSR's old sci-fi RPG Star Frontiers. The website also hosts a free version of the rules.
Website: www.starfrontiersman.com
Footprints e
Average page count: 54 (most recent)
Frequency: ??? Quarterly??
Number of issues to date: 14
Price: free
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: only
Subject area/content: Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (1st edition).
Website: www.dragonsfoot.org
d20 Zine e (Dead)
Average page count: ??
Frequency: quarterly
Number of issues to date: 6 (and there will be no more)
Price: free
Subscription: no
Available in .pdf: only
Subject area/content: magazine established to be an Open Content resource for GameMasters and fans who use the d20 Rules Gaming System.
Website: you can download them at rpgnow . com RPGNow.com - DragonWing Games - - The leading source for indie RPGs
PolyGlot e
Average page count: 50?
Frequency: Bi-Monthly (in this case twice a month)
Number of issues to date: 14
Price: free
Subscription: yes (in html)
Available in .pdf: yes
Subject area/content: Newsletter about the gaming industry, both RPG and Miniatures/Wargaming. Discusses what's new with gaming companies.
Website: </title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-9"> <link href="css/template_css.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <style> BODY{ CURSOR: url(templates/g15/images/cursor2.cur); } .style1 {color: #000000} </style> <me
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