 January 9, 2013 - 5:22am | This could prove to be interesting. I'm sure you could convince them to publish starfrontiers articles. Interview http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-with-jayson-elliott-founder-of-the-new-tsr From : GygaxMagazine.com Oh yeah, ready to dance some more. Just got this email Hi Jeff, It's been quite a wait, but it's finally time! The first issue of Gygax magazine will be unboxed at 2pm EST on Saturday, January 26th at The Brooklyn Strategist. We'll be streaming the unboxing live at GygaxMagazine.com for everyone who can't be in New York City that day. As soon as the first box is opened, you'll be able to order single copies or subscriptions online. (And of course, we'll have them in the store as well.) The staff of Gygax magazine, including Ernie Gygax, Luke Gygax, Tim Kask, Jayson Elliot, Jim Wampler, and James Carpio, will be online for a video Q&A. We'll have some other special guests that day as well. After the unboxing, we'll keep the video running while we run gaming events all afternoon. There will be a limited number of online seats available to join the in-store games via the virtual tabletop Roll20. A followup email will be sent next week with a link to a form where you can sign up to play online. Keep following us on Twitter and Facebook for more details as we get closer to the unboxing day! We'll be sending a followup email next week with details for anyone who wants to attend the event in person. Mark your calendar: Saturday, January 26th 2pm Eastern Standard Time GygaxMagazine.com The Brooklyn Strategist 333 Court Street Brooklyn, New York See you there! -Jayson «Language is a virus from outer space» William S. Burroughs |
 January 9, 2013 - 8:03am | Well it looks like Wizards allowed TSR to expire as a trademark and Hexagon publishing picked it up; or at least that is what I presume from looking at the very uniformative site. I would have loved a bit more information then they gave. That said one wonders if its going to be a strong fantasy focus or what? EDIT: Alright the interview was helpful. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
January 11, 2013 - 5:27pm | Contents of first issue: Still Playing After All These Years - by Tim Kask Leomund's Secure Shelter - by Len Lakofka The Ecology of the Banshee - by Ronald Corn Bridging Generations - by Luke Gygax The Gygax Family Storyteller - by Ernie Gygax Keeping Magic Magical - by Dennis Sustare Gaming With a Virtual Tabletop - by Nevin P. Jones DMing for Your Toddler - by Cory Doctorow Great Power for ICONS - by Steve Kenson Gaming Through the Generations - by Ethan Gilsdorf Between the Dungeons - by Ernie Gygax Talents Off the Front Line - by Dennis Detwiller Adaption Decay - by Michael Tresca Gnatdamp: A Sanctuary in the Swamp adventure by Michael Curtis The Kobold's Cavern - a special section edited by Wofgang Baur of Kobold Press: ---A Magical Miscellany for AGE by Randall Hurlburt ---Scaling Pathfinder Combat Feats by Marc Radle ---An AGE of Great Inventions by Rodrigo García Carmona Comic - Marvin the Mage by Jim Wampler Comic - What's New with Phil & Dixie by Phil Foglio Comic - The Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew «Language is a virus from outer space» William S. Burroughs |
 January 11, 2013 - 7:25pm | Well it looks like Wizards allowed TSR to expire as a trademark and Hexagon publishing picked it up;
Checking the gov site, "Star Frontiers" is also listed as "dead" (they are not paying to maintain it since 2004). Sadly the name does not fit with the game I am working on. |
March 1, 2013 - 5:43pm | I just spotted a post in another forum this magazine has released. Poster in question just got his in the mail. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 22, 2015 - 8:22am | one wonders if its going to be a strong fantasy focus or what? I just got issue 4 in the mail. and I now have a subscription and I'm very excited about it. The Zine is pretty much the next best thing to getting a new issue of Dragon magazine. In fact they are actively recruiting artist who worked on Dragon and clearly patterning the zine after Dragon mag from its golden age: 1980s. Table of contents and cover shout: Dragon Magazine! As far as i can tell their target audience is middle age gamers who are a little nostolgic about the game (D&D and to a lesser extent other TSR properties-that is TSR properties that are now owned by WotC since the zine is published by the new TSR). of course a younger demographic is likely to love the zine too just as most of us love getting Dragon back in the day. The highlight of this issue is the Top Secret adventure written by one of the original game designers. It would work as a SF adventure with a little adjustment. (I'd drop the Arab arms dealer in favore of a Vrusk Trade house and create some cultural quirks to replace those that the agents are briefed on for interacting with ethnic arabs. Locate the adventure location to an isolated location on Laco or Volturnus and surprise the camel racing could be loper or tomar's horse racing). There is 2 articles for 13th Age RPG, 3 DM's tool box articles for new takes on old creatures or just new creatures clearly aimed at AD&D players but useable by almost any iteration of D&D expect perhaps 4.0 There are a couple of articles of general interest as well. I'm impressed with and really enjoyed it. The Artwork is fabulous. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
