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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9605698" data-attributes="member: 25818">Not relevant to anything anyone is talking about (... sorry) but for some years now I've been trying to track down a number of old RPG fanzines, and if you wanted to know the most futile possible pastime, I have to tell you, that may be it.Like, even if you're a youngish gamer who grew up in this post-periodical world, you will have heard of Dragon magazine, and probably White Dwarf. If you delve a little into the hobby, you'll find references to slightly-less-well-known periodicals like Different Worlds or Gateways. If you try to track down really old gaming references, you might come across obscure but well-regarded APAzines like The Wild Hunt and Alarums & Excursions (still being published!). And even US-based gamers of my age will probably now know about the big magazines from overseas, like Casus Belli (France), or Mephisto (German), or Australian Realms (Austrian*).I'm talking about even more obscure titles that no sane person has heard of. Things that might only have had a distribution of a few hundred issues to members of a specific RPG club. Some of them only lasted one to five issues. So, I'm talking rare stuff.And, let me be clear, a lot of this stuff is, frankly, garbage compared to "the good stuff." Like, poorly-edited, inconsistently-formatted, massively-cliched stuff. For every forgotten gem of a scenario, you'll have six articles about why women don't belong in gaming, or how to make differences between polearms more pronounced, or a statblock for a totally-original monster with terrible scribbly art.I absolutely love this stuff, man. I treasure the gems more, of course, but each terrible article or adventure was a labor of love from somebody just like me, with all of my biases, and prejudices, and limitations, and, just maybe, one or two good ideas.But it's frustrating. For instance, I'm currently looking for French and German fanzines from the 80s and 90s, and I only speak one of those languages. Frustrating.</blockquote>

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