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<blockquote data-quote="catenwolde" data-source="post: 3916130" data-attributes="member: 33889">RPG mag's vs. Wargaming mag'sI have tended to wander back and forth between rpg'ing and miniature wargaming over the years.&nbsp; RPG'ing is on the upswing now, as time for large historical wargaming projects continues to grow harder to find, and my children are finally old enough to play &quot;imagination games&quot; (currently Barbarians of Lemuria!).&nbsp; Regardless of my current focus, however, I try to keep up on what's going on with both sides of gaming.&nbsp; Obviously, from my post count, that has meant more lurking than posting.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />For me, then, it's interesting to see Games Workshop's &quot;Warhammer&quot; miniature gaming magazine sitting on the racks of supermarkets as well as bookstores, but having no rpg magazines in the same space.&nbsp; It's even possible in some places to find historical wargaming magazines in bookstores.&nbsp; Now, wargaming is a small hobby compared to rpg's, and historical wargaming is an even smaller subset of that.&nbsp; Why then has GW, the largest (perhaps only) &quot;real company&quot; in wargamimg, been able to keep a glossy print mag as a focal feature of their line, while D&amp;D has not been able to?&nbsp; Why have several historical wargaming magazines continued on their way when small press rpg magazines tend to lose theirs?I don't haver any answers, by the way, I'm just agreeing with the OP that it does seem strange, especially when other, smaller hobbies can support their own magazines.&nbsp; My father is a model railroader, which I think may be a larger hobby than rpg'ing, but on the other hand it supports multiple glossy mag's.&nbsp; Has the rpg hobby shrunk more than I thought?&nbsp; Do rpg fans expect higher production values, and thus effectively price out their own magazines?Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="catenwolde, post: 3916130, member: 33889"] [b]RPG mag's vs. Wargaming mag's[/b] I have tended to wander back and forth between rpg'ing and miniature wargaming over the years. RPG'ing is on the upswing now, as time for large historical wargaming projects continues to grow harder to find, and my children are finally old enough to play "imagination games" (currently Barbarians of Lemuria!). Regardless of my current focus, however, I try to keep up on what's going on with both sides of gaming. Obviously, from my post count, that has meant more lurking than posting. ;) For me, then, it's interesting to see Games Workshop's "Warhammer" miniature gaming magazine sitting on the racks of supermarkets as well as bookstores, but having no rpg magazines in the same space. It's even possible in some places to find historical wargaming magazines in bookstores. Now, wargaming is a small hobby compared to rpg's, and historical wargaming is an even smaller subset of that. Why then has GW, the largest (perhaps only) "real company" in wargamimg, been able to keep a glossy print mag as a focal feature of their line, while D&D has not been able to? Why have several historical wargaming magazines continued on their way when small press rpg magazines tend to lose theirs? I don't haver any answers, by the way, I'm just agreeing with the OP that it does seem strange, especially when other, smaller hobbies can support their own magazines. My father is a model railroader, which I think may be a larger hobby than rpg'ing, but on the other hand it supports multiple glossy mag's. Has the rpg hobby shrunk more than I thought? Do rpg fans expect higher production values, and thus effectively price out their own magazines? Cheers [/QUOTE]

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