Gaming Periodicals Collection

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Making an inventory of all the gaming-related magazines and periodicals I own has become rather painful. It is perhaps here that I most wish I had a database solution. But I don't yet.

Many periodicals I own are listed on my Traveller page; in fact, if it weren't for the fact that I own over 250 issues of Dragon magazine, and almost 60 of Dungeon, I could say that the vast majority of my periodicals are "covered" by the Traveller page. And I've thought of just lumping in the titles that _don't_ belong on the Traveller page with my AD&D material. Yet since I eventually want to unify them --well, you get the idea.

So, be sure to check out my Traveller page's magazine sections...

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The Periodicals Collection

The Key

Black I own at least one copy of this item in my collection.
Italic I owned these items "before" 2001; i.e., I bought them in the 80s and 90s.
Red These items are known or suspected to exist, but I don't own a copy of them (yet).
Blue I have recently ordered or won in auction these items, but they are en route.
Gray These items were never published.

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The Periodicals Collection

Dragon Magazine (TSR / WOTC / Hasbro)

By the time I left home for college, I had gathered all of TSR's Dragon magazine, except for issues #1, #2, #6, and #13, which, if I may rather immodestly say so, was pretty substantial. However, figuring out how to locate, let alone pay for those four remaining issues, was equally challenging -- and besides, I was "now" (then) in college, and couldn't/shouldn't afford the distraction or cost! Earlier this year (2001), however, I finally got active on Ebay. And now I've managed to get #6 and #13, and learn that #2 will likely cost about $150, and #1 about $250...

So, ironically, after abandoning Dragon in 1993, when my years paid-ahead subscription finally ended (the last 30-40 issues are _still_ in their mailing bags!), after abandoning Second Edition and TSR during the 90s, now that Third Edition has been released, there are a few things in Dragon these days that look interesting. Go figure.

So once again I find that I'm searching for Dragon back-issues. But this time it'll be easier... I should not I'm not real sure I'll resume my subscription.

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Dungeon Magazine (TSR / WOTC / Hasbro)

Dungeon started in 1987 or 1988, when I was both at the peak of my childhood/teenage gaming love affair -- and beginning to get frustrated with the "Starbucks-ization" of TSR: they were getting big and corporate, and production quality was going down. I stopped collecting with the release of Second Edition AD&D, and pretty much abandoned gaming for the entirety of the 1990s (I played regularly and avidly at college -- but we played _1st Edition_, and proudly so).

Anyway, at the time of Dungeon's inception, I had already purchased several years of Dragon subscription ahead of time, to maximize economy. I dove into Dungeon, too, but let it go after just under three years... When I got onto Ebay in 2001, I decided to complete it through #60, which I have yet to do -- but then, it hasn't been exactly a high priority!

Sometime in late 2015 or early 2016 I located the two in 1-60 that I had originally missed: #37 and #52 used for $3 each -- nice!

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Pyramid Magazine (Steve Jackson Games)

This one's kind of a fluke. I am an ardent Gene Wolfe fan (he wrote the Book of the New Sun tetralogy, and _many_ other books), and I learned mid-2001 that SJ Games had a GURPS New Sun book -- and that they'd published some articles about it in Pyramid #4. Which I promptly bought...which came with Issue #1. Over the Christmas 2001 holidays I found Issues #2 and #3. And that's probably all that I'll ever get!

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