Polymancer - a new RPG magazine. Has anyone seen this yet?

[Roudi]

I was browsing my local big-box bookstore when I came across an oddity tucked next to a stack of Dragon and Dungeon magazines. It was a relatively-cheaper magazine calling itself Polymancer - alternatives for gamers. I picked it up and haven't been dissapointed. It's put out by a group in Quebec, Canada, and aims at being a system/setting neutral magazine. There's an article here about rules lawyers, another about making RPG settings your own, there's a horror adventure, a minis article (general minis, not WotC minis), a Play-By-Email article, and more. I'm really impressed. It certainly doesn't have the production values of the Paizo magazines, but its writing is smart and is refreshingly crunch-lite.

I seem to have picked up Volume 1, Issue 1, but there's no date on it. There may be more. I'm seriously considering a subscription.

Has anyone else encountered Polymancer? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

 

[John Morrow]

I was browsing my local big-box bookstore when I came across an oddity tucked next to a stack of Dragon and Dungeon magazines.

Which big-box bookstore chain was that?

 

[Roudi]

Chapters, part of the Chapters/Indigo/Coles chain of stores. There's no game store in my immediate vicinity, otherwise I would be shopping there for my gaing material.

 

[philreed]

Website here:

http://www.polymancerstudios.com/index_files/Page614.htm

 

[mythusmage]

Well Actually...

Polymancer Studios

Polymancer is their first offering. An RPG system and some computer games are on the way. They also have a shot of the 1st issue cover up. In a browser window it had a continental feel to it. I suspect the artist is Quebecois.