A little Love for Gaming Magazines

I never subscribed to the print version of Dragon Magazine, and didn’t start paying attention to it until it when digital for 4e (and subsequently stopped reading it when I stopped playing 4e). I suppose I was too much of a single setting type guy. I’m big on setting canon and that sort of thing, and themags were too random. Or maybe I just didn’t have an effective source for them. Or maybe I was too poor.

Whatever the reason, I regret it now.

Until the end of the month, Kobold Quarterly is giving away issue #10 [As the offer is over they've removed the link]. I decided to pick it up on a whim, and pawing through it, I’ve come to realize the kind of things I’ve been missing. In these magazines, there’s room for some real creativity to flourish, because a new setting, local, monster, or adventure seed only has to support itself.

And then there are the articles. The depth of focus that a magazine provides is refreshing. It’s something we can’t really get away with on this blog. We can’t easily post an article that would take up six or seven pages in a three column format. Nobody wants to read that much text off a screen. Let’s face it. The internet is A.D.D. incarnate.

So now I’m hooked. Also, I have a number of ideas that I’ve struggled to put into post format. Perhaps I should be looking into these magazines. Though this gives me some thoughts for .pdf articles meant for printing. If you’d be interested in such a thing, let me know.