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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 5944080" data-attributes="member: 21938">White Dwarf magazine, from its first issue in June 1977 until the end of the 1980s, gives an interesting history of the birth and expansion of role-playing games, through its own particular lens of the hobby in the UK and, later, as published or distributed purely by Games Workshop.This is a read-through thread, but I'm not going to go issue by issue; instead I shall be reviewing batches of ten issues at a time, from Issue 1 up to Issue 100. I'm not going page by page, but picking out particularly interesting examples of articles that are either representative of their era (for good or ill), are ideas that are worth resurrecting, or are predictions that prove either eerily prescient or amusingly mistaken.These articles are broken down into subsections. Overall discusses the physical changes to the magazine in terms of layout, price and sometimes the range of topics covered. Games gives an indication not only of games covered by the magazine but also those that become available, often reviewed, some advertised only. Scenarios discusses just that - nearly every issue contains at least one usable adventure, sometimes a mini-game instead. Articles covers everything else, and looks at changing attitiudes to gaming as well as picking out some of the more interesting "crunch" from time to time. Finally, General Thoughts summarises the style of the era covered by the ten issues under discussion, and any particularly interesting changes in attitude or gaming style that occurs.As I said, this isn't a detailed issue-by-issue, page-by-page dissection of each magazine (<a href="http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?405199-In-which-I-read-White-Dwarf-from-issue-1" target="_blank">This thread</a> by Private Eye covers that better, although only up to issue 38 or thereabouts.). I've tried to credit authors where I can although there are bound to be oversights.Feel free to chip in with comments, reminiscences, arguments etc. I'm sure that some contributers to the magazine must post on this forum - your comments are more than welcome.Covers come from RPG.Net, and if you click on them you'll be taken to a table of contents on the same site for each magazine.Thread Index<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5944081-post2.html" target="_blank">Part One: The Early Years</a> (Issues 1-10). June 1977-July 1979<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5949289-post9.html" target="_blank">Part Two: Consolidation</a> (Issues 11-20). August 1979 - September 1980<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5954879-post10.html" target="_blank">Part Three: Rise of the Big Three</a> (Issues 21-30). October 1980 - May 1982<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5959377-post16.html" target="_blank">Part Four: The Early Golden Age</a> (Issues 31-40). June 1982 - April 1983<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5964740-post26.html" target="_blank">Part Five: The Late Golden Age</a> (Issues 41-50). May 1983 - February 1984 <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5970367-post30.html" target="_blank">Part Six: Widening Participation a.k.a. The Ones Where I subscribed</a> (Issues 51-60). March 1984 - December 1984<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5975409-post31.html" target="_blank">Part Seven: More Breadth, Less Depth</a> (Issues 61-70). January 1985 - October 1985<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5980665-post32.html" target="_blank">Part Eight: A New Era</a> (Issues 71-80). November 1985 - August 1986<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5984188-post33.html" target="_blank">Part Nine: The Rise of Games Workshop</a> (Issues 81-90). September 1986 - June 1987<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5989730-post38.html" target="_blank">Part Ten: Warhammer Takes Over</a> (Issues 91-100). July 1987 - April 1988<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/5995618-post39.html" target="_blank">Epilogue</a> (Issues 101-110). May 1988-February 1989Other WD Read-throughs<a href="http://timbrannan.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/white%20dwarf" target="_blank">WebWarlock's Blog</a><a href="http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?405199-In-which-I-read-White-Dwarf-from-issue-1" target="_blank">Private Eye's RPGNet thread</a> (up to issue 39).</blockquote>

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