Hey All,
Just curious, I am new to the current rpg world. Are their any rpg magazines that I can subscribe to? I know "Dragon" does not exist anymore. Is there anything like that?
Thanks!
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Hey Santos,
Paizo does not produce a magazine per-say, but several of our monthly publications reflect the company's magazine-publishing past. The Adventure Path line provides not only an adventure, but also a handful of relevant articles and exciting fiction. The Player Companion and Campaign Setting lines are 32 and 64 pages respectively and come out nearly every month. The former includes lots of player options along with shorter articles about the campaign setting (minus the spoilers). The latter explores a region or larger element of the world (e.g. mysteries, megadungeons, magic, and more) and includes tons of ideas you can use to create your own adventures. Any of these three products is available as a subscription if you like, so you can have the fun of getting something new each month.
The Pathfinder fan-base is really strong, and one group publishes its own fan-run magazine called Wayfinder, which is free to download. Even though the contents are not "Official," it's a great read and includes dozens of fun articles in each issue.
Just as a shameless plug for my own product line, I encourage you to check out Pathfinder Society Organized Play, which is a great way to play a short adventure, develop a character you can play anywhere in the world, and meet other gamers in your area. There's a good chance that wherever you are, there's already a community running games and happy to welcome you.
Well, Mr. Compton covered just about everything already.
I would like to say, that when Paizo stopped publishing Dragon and Dungeon they started publishing the Adventure Paths. They are numbered similarly to a line of magazines (currently on number 90). They cost a tad more than some of the magazines out there, but for the value, are quite worth it. They come out monthly, just like a magazine, but are somewhat higher quality (IMO).
That's my preference...but as Mr. Compton pointed out, you have several options out there from Paizo.
Might also want to check out Kobold Quarterly (a 3pp successor to Dragon magazine now sadly also defunct) , Adventure Quarterly (a 3pp successor to Dungeon magazine) and the free Pathways magazine.
Though neither of those uses the Golarion campaign setting.
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You might also want to check out Gygax Magazine, which recently released issue number 4. Its content spans all sorts of RPGs, and skews toward an old-school style.
Rite Publishing offers a monthly PDF magazine for Pathfinder called Pathways which is always a free download.
And as Thanael mentioned Adventure Quarterly, which also by Rite Publishing, and is the spirit of Dungeon magazine.
Also Paizo doing Dragon magazine again would be awesome. Just saying.
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Also Paizo doing Dragon magazine again would be awesome. Just saying.
While that would be cool, James Jacobs has pretty much stated that will not happen:
As for Paizo doing a magazine... chances of that are VERY VERY unlikely. We don't have the staff, the infrastructure, or the finances to do something like that.
Paizo won't be dipping her toes in the dreadful scary cruel horrific razor-edged boiling acidic waters of the magazine industry again, I'm relatively sure.