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I have probably 80 to 85% of the hard copy issues they published, and I miss the monthly magazine I waited so eagerly for. And I particularly loved the 1e and 2e issues, because they not only included articles on mechanics but historical articles about different things, unlike the 3.x issues that dealt mainly with mechanics. And the covers! Oh, the covers! Every cover told a story in the 1e and 2e editions.
Sigh...for the old days.
I just wish there was an online resource for finding some of the articles. I often see references here to articles, which are of no use unless you have an attic full of back copies.
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I also miss Dragon Magazine... I have a complete run of Kobold Quarterly to prove it.
From issue #100 on, I have a complete set (about 10-15 issues scattered before that), and I'll pull them out every once in a while for nostalgia's sake. I agree, DungeonmasterCal, I especially miss the 1/2e issues, where you got all kinds of different stuff. Le sigh...
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I have boxes full.
As do I. But I miss the giddy excitement of getting a new one each month. When Paizo lost the rights to it I went into a funk that lasted 3 days.
I know the feeling. I'm missing a couple of Dragons and a couple of it's forerunner the Strategic Review. It's a bit of a pain to plow back through them looking for stuff despite several indexes, but fun just to see it. And the non D&D articles on Traveller and other games. They turned out a CD Rom compilation of Strategic Review and Dragon (The Dragon Magazine Archive) up through issue #250. It helps; you can print out miscellaneous articles if you want hard copy. It has a front end that allows you to navigate the files year by year (if you have the correct disc inserted) go to a specific issue, but all the magazines are on the discs in PDF format numbered. I generally just drag it out and drop a copy on my desktop. I really need to archive them in case the discs go south on me. A modern PDF viewer allows a much improved viewing format over the old program. It was turned out late TSR / early WotC. Alternity was new and AD&D (2E) still ruled. Good days.
Snarfs Quest. Ah the nostalgia. I've only got a few of these. Most of them died due to the constant water damage of living in a basement that flooded often...
I'm down to only issues 132-135 and issue 144 and the one with the all silver cover with the Death Knight and Duellist classes. I think that one is like a 'best of previous issues anniversary' thing.
My favorite articles were the 'game convention ornithology' and 'front end alignments' articles describing the different types of gamers as birds and describing not character alignments, but playstyles as alignments.
Most of the issues that Paizo published can be purchased as PDFs from the Paizo.com store.The issues that WotC published after Paizo lost their license can be purchased in WotC's OBS library.
Thanks so much. Is there an online/pdf source for the ones that are "unavailable"?
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Sigh. The 1e Psionicist. The ecology of the Mind Flayer. The cartoons! (An armored goon w/"85 HP" emblazoned on his chest sayong 'not really, but it puts off the literate monsters...")
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I was just reading that old article ("Plane Speaking: Tuning into the Outer Planes," by Jeff Grubb) in issue #120, where he gave the material and pitch for the tuning forks needed for each plane when casting plane shift.
There are plenty of old articles like that that are still incredibly useful today.
LOL!
Searching for the right tuning fork is why our current KM game has taken us to Sothis, we need one tuned to the Boneyard.The answer has been sitting there in the bookcase, a 5' step from my desk.
It will detour me for hours tonight, because I can't just read one article without rechecking the rest of it, or the adjacent copies.
SIGH...back good times tonight.
That CDROM collection was one of the better purchases I've made.
Yeah, I have that collection, too.
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I have them all as PDFs, but it's just not the same. :(
I agree 100%. I drag out my old hard copies from time to time, but for quick reference I use the .pdfs. But nothing beats being able to curl up on the couch and read through a stack of them "old school".
Well, I currently read the Adventure Paths more as magazines than books. In fact, it's replaced the old TSR/WotC magazines in that light.
On the otherhand, the APs are more like Dungeon than Dragon.
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Yeah, sure, but you know, sometimes, well, sometimes it's just that I miss being twelve years old.
Sometimes? More like, all the time, man, just all the time.
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That CDROM collection was one of the better purchases I've made.
I still have my CD's. I need to copy those PDF's over to my archive...
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Honestly, the thing I miss the most was the wide variety of artwork that showed up in Dragon. The art for Pathfinder looks good, but with an established look, there's little variety.
I miss the 1e artwork on Dragon and Dungeon. While I like the modern takes on fantasy tropes that are more usually spotlighted in products like the current APs, there was something about the covers back then...
Like the one with the chainmail clad warriors riding down the hill with a burning keep behind them, or the image of Kostochie standing over the dead Roman legionnaires...
the image of Kostochie standing over the dead Roman legionnaires...
That was one of my favorites.
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I just wish there was an online resource for finding some of the articles. I often see references here to articles, which are of no use unless you have an attic full of back copies.
There is an online index to Dragon Magazine:
It may not be as good as having an attic full of back copies, but it does list what issues each of the articles appeared in. :-)