Nostalgia for Our Magazines

[Baby Samurai]

-I loved the Ed Greenwood issues on the Nine Hells.

-I use to dig Marvel File.

-The article Hooves and Green Hair (what a title!).

-The issue on crossing D&D (2nd edition) and Gammaworld (4th edition).

-My favourite all time article was by Wolfgang Baur (in 1992?), it was titled Scimitars in the Dark, and was all about a Dark Arabian (Al-Qadim) campaign (evil genies, dark knowledge, corrupt caliphs etc).

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

The covers from back in the day, when they felt and looked like gateways to adventure.

The April and Halloween themed issues. I loved the yearly doses of the silly and spooky.

 

[DreadPirateMurphy]

I really used to like SnarfQuest, too... The current collection of comics is also very good. I read Nodwick, Order of the Stick, and Dork Tower first thing with the latest issues. I miss Foglio's Phil and Dixie, though.

 

[PhantomNarrator]

Too much to sum up

I started collecting Dragon with issue #72, the latter half of it's golden age, then stopped around #194, only to start collecting it again right up to the present when KotDT began its run around #259.

Here's what I miss most:

-- KotDT - thankfully still available elsewhere.

-- What's New? - Phil Foglio is a genius.

-- ARES - A SciFi section in Dragon? Yes, once upon a time . . .

-- Ecology of the X

-- The cut-out of the Inner Planes in #73

-- Leomund's Tiny Hunt

-- Minarian Legends

-- The Review Section

and so much more. *sigh*

 

[Crysmalon]

Ah, play-doh. That was the article that inspired me to use play-doh for the dozens of slimes/oozes in a Night Below campaign. See, I thought it would be cool to use on the battlemat. Little did I know that the entire night would degenerate into play-doh throwing, stretching and mixing. Later on, I realized that the mood of the game was toast - but definitely memorable

 

[Baby Samurai]

Yamara!

 

[Crysmalon]

memories

Dragon:
- Demonomicon
- Snarfquest

Dungeon:
- Devil Box
- Salvage Operation
- the Harrowing
- Final resting Place
- all adventure paths

 

[Peni Griffin]

The things you remember are the things that roused your imagination. Have that articles over the last 10 years done the for you or is it just a game of leveling now?

That depends, and has always depended, on the player. Nostalgia is a specific feeling, and it's hard to feel it about memories that haven't aged more than ten years. Fifteen years from now, when people who discovered roleplaying last year are reminiscing, will be time enough to judge the value of the magazine since the end of the 20th century. I haven't done more than skim it and read the comics in years - I can only read so much crunch, and ever since Greenwood the fluff's been written in such inflated prose I can barely stomach it - but I'm not a typical end-user either.

Ah, yes, Phil and Dixie and "Sex and D&D!" 'Member the time the little growf dragons overran the zine?

'Member "Bazaar of the Bizaare?"

'Member the Snow Golem cover? It came out the month Russia invaded Afghanistan and suddenly everyone thought the earflapped hat on the kid looked like an Afghan headdress.

 

[johnsemlak]

Can I add some nostalgia fro the old Polyhedron mag, back when it was a freebie that came with RPGA membership. When I had that back in the mid-80s I relied on it for my gaming fix. I loved some of it's adventures, and lots of other fix. Unlike Dragon, which could be repurchased on the Dragon CD set, the old Polyhedron mags are pretty much gone forever for those who didn't keep their copies (sigh).

 

[Moulin Rogue]

A while back, someone had started an issue-by-issue thread discussing the contents of every Dragon from #1 forward, with commentary on various interesting things. It covered the first 2-3 years, just when things were getting good... the thread got lost forever in that forum crash Suddenly I wish it was still around. Can I be nostalgic for that?