> -----Original Message----- > From: woodelf > > Also, i just have a different ideology on this matter, it sounds > like. I'd rather have one good, high-production-value, > flashy-looking, found-in-non-game-stores, RPG magazine that catered > to all RPers, at least nominally, with a lot of non-system-specific > articles and a spread of game-specific articles, even if that meant > that i, personally, only got one good article out of each issue, but > which would have at least nominal appeal to all gamers, than in > insular, game-specific magazine that gives a certain segment of the > market [almost] exactly what they want, but gives the rest of the > market absolutely nothing. Sports Illustrated, rather than Golf > Digest, to use an analogy.
Sorry, but the sports community is much larger than the gaming community to support such a general genre magazine. More importantly, the gaming community is much more split than the sports community. Try to include a non-D&D article that have no conversion to D&D games nor relevance, and you'll find a virtual mob with torches and pitchforks reminding you the reason why they buy Dragon magazine, so-called 100% official D&D magazine. In fact, while there are some gamers that play many different games using different rulesets, there are those who show disdain -- some to an extreme, disgust -- of other games and rules except the one they like. You are welcome to try and start up such a magazine circulation, keep in mind that others have tried and failed (e.g., Shadis). Sooner or later, you're going to find out that not many will want to buy a 98-page magazine that have only one article for the game they like. To put it in analogy, American fans will buy an American Football magazine, Canadian fans will buy a Canadian Football magazine, and the rest of the world buy the traditional Football (soccer) magazine, with only a few (like you and me) will cross over. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
