End of an Era

Talion

Talion

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Well after 20 years, of collecting White Dwarf magazine. As of this month the affair is over.

Due to the magazine now being nothing but a catalogue, I will no longer be purchasing it. It's a crying shame, but I can see pretty much everything in it online. The painting guides are now for beginners and a frankly shite..

I will glance through it at my local sainsbury's and buy the odd one if it takes my fancy, but the monthly purchase has stopped.

Can anyone recommend another good fantasy magazine I can subscribe to? I don't just want pictures of miniatures.

Cheers
 
cassar

cassar

BALLSCRATCHER
Talion said:
Well after 20 years, of collecting White Dwarf magazine. As of this month the affair is over.

Due to the magazine now being nothing but a catalogue, I will no longer be purchasing it. It's a crying shame, but I can see pretty much everything in it online. The painting guides are now for beginners and a frankly shite..

I will glance through it at my local sainsbury's and buy the odd one if it takes my fancy, but the monthly purchase has stopped.

Can anyone recommend another good fantasy magazine I can subscribe to? I don't just want pictures of miniatures.

Cheers
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Bombay badonkadonks Lol
 
kathrynloch

kathrynloch

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Ravage!

And welcome to this special club of former White Dwarf subscribers. I still have stacks of the magazines from years back - but nothing current. I wouldn't be surprised if GW made all of that solely downloadable content soon anyway. Because that's the truth - it's a catalog you have to pay for and an expensive one at that.
 
ipaintminis

ipaintminis

Active member
I gave up on it when they got rid of Dirty Steve, who I just adored (met him at an Atlanta GD back in the day). It's sad to see something that could be so integral to the community turn into a simple catalogue...
 
QuietiManes

QuietiManes

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It stopped being a magazine a long, long time ago. I stopped my subscription a few years ago. I just surf the net for freebies these days. Though I do miss getting magazines in the mail, always a nice feeling of excitement and expectation...plus I always feel like a grown up, reading my stories, even if they are about little toy soldiers.
 
marjedi

marjedi

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Watch some "Big bang theory" and you will get the joke....

And the answer would be yea.

Oh and welcome to the club, i ditched that crap mag ages ago. All the pics of the minis are on the website anyways.
 
Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

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Staff member
kathrynloch said:
And welcome to this special club of former White Dwarf subscribers.
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The Only White Dwarf stuff I've kept is the Golden Deamon Special booklets, other than that it's all been recycled. (Actually not quite true, I've kept my Sisters Of Battle Codex issues.)
I also remember the first WD I got was back in 1989 when it was a magazine.

There will be a few of us here who will remember Harbinger magazine, mostly in positive terms for the mini's and stuff.
(I have a couple of negatives about it mostly to do with someone who was a plagarist and hypocrite.)

I'd forgotten about Ravage, might have to do some 'research'.
 
Talion

Talion

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I'm currently in the process of digitising my entire white dwarf collection and collecting the ones I haven't got from various sources.

Does "Dragon " magazine still exist? I vaguely remember that being an ok read.
 
AndyG

AndyG

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Yeah stopped white dwarf subscription over a year ago when they stopped doing heavy metal master class; as said an expensive catalogue of stuff I'm never ever going to buy!

R.I.P dragon though I did hear tell you could still get it in digital form though wether it still can I dunno. Ha WOTC loss Paizo gain;)
 
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Baron Iveagh

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marjedi said:
Dragon is dead. Got canned when wotc pulled paizos license years ago.
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Yeah, I have the last issue framed. It was sad, they maintained a reasonably high quality and good sales figs to the end. But WotC wanted to force people to use some pay site and have a 4e only mouthpiece, and felt that Dragon and Dungeon were too much content per dollar.

Now the name is soiled by the same sort of mentality as WD. It's an advertisement, nothing more, and worse, not even a magazine, just a subscriber only website.

Paizo does produce the pathfinder adventure paths, but dear god are they expensive. Good. But hideously expensive.
 
Egrimm van Horstmann

Egrimm van Horstmann

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It was interesting to see, what has become of White Dwarf when I reentered the hobby approx. 3 years ago. I was abstinent for over 10 years. Before that it was a magazine with Rolplaying stuff inside. I can remember the city of Marienburg with descriptions of citizens and locations - very interesting. Painting quality was low compared to the level today.
Even 3 years ago, I found that WD was mostly made up of ads. But it has become worse. When my local GW store asks me if I wanted a WD after a purchase there, I am telling them, that I am not going to spend 7 Euro on Advertisements. Maybe this is rude, but I feel like telling them the truth.

cheers, Egrimm
 
flashmanfe

flashmanfe

New member
Yea, did not renew my subscription, really liked the Masterclass articles. It really has become an expensive catalogue.
 
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MarkusTay

New member
Kobold Quarterly is considered the 'heir' to The Dragon. If you like dragon, you'll like that. I was never a big fan of WD (because I didn't play WH - just bought and painted random minis from the line).
 
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