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Post Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:24 am 
 

This news via RPGGeek (in turn via Reddit).

The Internet Archive has added scans of all print Dragon magazines and nearly all issues of Polyhedron Newszine to their archive.

Yes, you read that right -- every print issue of Dragon and nearly every print issue of Polyhedron available for free download in PDF, Kindle and DjVu formats! (And presumably legally, since Archive.org is a registered library.)

Edit: I've removed the links until the legality of Archive.org's magazine collection can be verified.


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Post Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:24 am 
 

and The Space Gamer by the looks..

I doubt its legal..

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Post Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:04 am 
 

Despite the claim in the initial RPGGeek post that the archive had been added with WotC's permission, I've not been able to find any evidence supporting that. So I've removed the links from the initial post, at least for the moment.

  


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Post Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 12:18 pm 
 

It is unlikely the Internet Archive posted such a huge body of work without getting clearance first.  Still, you can always just ask them:

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Post Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:24 pm 
 

I'd be happy with Polyhedron, as I've got the Dragon set of those I want already.


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Post Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 3:45 pm 
 

Convenient, but not particularly hard to locate out there on the interwebs anyway.


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Post Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:20 pm 
 

I don't think that Archive.org included the mailing covers with the Polyhedron issues.

A while back, I was working on a checklist of Polyhedron w/ mailing covers. The mailing covers fell in three categories: Did not need,  Supplemental (cartoons, artwork, classifieds), and Required (contained something relevant to the issue like a map or gameboard). Needless to say, I am going to have start that project over again as I can't find the file.

  

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:57 am 
 

thingvol wrote:A while back, I was working on a checklist of Polyhedron w/ mailing covers. The mailing covers fell in three categories: Did not need,  Supplemental (cartoons, artwork, classifieds), and Required (contained something relevant to the issue like a map or gameboard). Needless to say, I am going to have start that project over again as I can't find the file.


I swear someone already did that.  I know we have a list of which issues had mailing covers at all, but I thought someone took the next describing too.


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:52 am 
 

it was me, check out my collection I list all the ones that have cover/not and whats on them.. (I think I might still be missing issue 34.. so I don't know whats on the cover of that)

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:00 am 
 

Issue 34:
- Inside front mailing cover is blank
- Inside back mailing cover is a page of classifieds
- Back of mailing cover is blank

  


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 7:25 am 
 

Here's the old thread, with the handy post by Brette listing which covers had content:

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A more comprehensive list, including the particular content on each cover, would be a useful. I had most of Polyhedrons 1-40 at various times but currently only have the early ones without covers.

The Internet Archive pdf of #28 with Great Bugbear Hunt is missing the cover, which definitely has content from the module on it.


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 3:17 pm 
 

beasterbrook wrote:it was me, check out my collection I list all the ones that have cover/not and whats on them.. (I think I might still be missing issue 34.. so I don't know whats on the cover of that)

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:57 pm 
 

I have a whole slew of them I'm posting this weekend, including the introductory issue. A lot of them have the mailing covers.


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