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webrik33
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 10:54 pm

Does anyone have a list of fanzines (any and all rpg or wargaming) from the 70s/80s?

I know about A&E, The Wild Hunt, Europa, Outposts, Spartan, Dragon Lords, but that's the only ones I physically have in my collection

Any kind of list or just names of publications that were available would be appreciated.

thanks

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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 12:43 am

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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:39 am

There are a bunch of Diplomacy zines like: Graustark, The Silmarilli, and Greg Costikyan's GIGO, that have been scanned and put on the Internet Archive.

The Space Gamer, Command, General and a few others are also on there. (But mostly Diplomacy-based... Try the search term: "dipzine")

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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 2:12 am

Our very own Brett Easterbrook maintains a fairly definitive listing @ RPG Magzine and zine Index- Opening Page

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webrik33
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2014 10:39 am

thanks dog! exactly what i was looking for!

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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:42 am

If it's not on Brett's list, well, I won't say it doesn't exist, but, go find all those first and then worry about what he may not have unearthed yet.

Areas of interest/knowledge: Harn, WFRP, Ars Magica, anything BRP based such as CoC, Runequest, Pendragon and all their related games

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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:48 am

New ones are always coming to light (unfortunately).. It a pretty good start though.. Bit out of date though.. Collection may list more.. (Dont know if my collection list is up at the moment , web page got hacked by some muslem fundamentallist the other day..

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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 1:19 pm

beasterbrook wrote in List of Fanzines:web page got hacked by some muslem fundamentallist the other day..

Did they object to a Beaumains scenario, or something? :?:

@webrik33: Yep; a good go-to list for worldwide 'zines. Delving down geographically there are over 500 titles for the UK alone: good luck with Dragonlords 1, 2, 22 and 23-29 (*jk*) to complete that one on your list but it's well worth the journey, IMO.

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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 3:41 pm

Dragon 50 has a detailed article by Dave Nalle on the zines of the day (1981), & the RPG guidebook Dicing with Dragons (Ian Livingstone, 1982) has a list.

webrik33
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:41 pm

thanks guys. tadashie had a dragonlords i picked up some months ago for a good price

i was just wanting to see a list of sorts just to have an idea of whats out there. I never knew soooooooo many titles existed!

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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:17 am

faro wrote in List of Fanzines:Did they object to a Beaumains scenario, or something?

Tangent: I just finished my Beaumains set! Yay!

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