Classic tabletop gaming fanzine

[Eric]

Looks like it could be interesting, pondering backing it myself and thought it may interest some here.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jdhoare/secret-passages-1

Their blurb:

You are the graph paper generation. The bright green flocked base generation. The Fighting Fantasy hand cramp fingers-for-bookmarks generation. The read White Dwarf from cover-to-cover generation. The sourcebooks in our school bag generation.

You can draw a Bolter from memory, judge blast radius by eye, and your heroes had back banners the size of barn doors. You're the roleplayers and wargamers of the 1980s and 1990s, too young for Lake Geneva and too old for Twitch.

Secret Passages #1 is for you. This is a new 100-page quarterly A5 magazine packed with original artwork, in-depth interviews, and insightful essays that luxuriate in specific releases and experiences. There'll be no sweeping histories of entire game lines, no top-down interviews that breeze through 60 books in six pages, and no regurgitating Wikipedia.

 

[KingOfTheLeadPile]

Thank you, Sir. You just made me spend more money.

 

[Eric]

The second issue is crowd funding at present: https://www.kickstarter.com/project...es-2-an-old-school-rpg-and-oldhammer-magazine for those who are interested.

 

[KingOfTheLeadPile]

Thank you, Sir. You just made me spend more money, again.

 

[Eric]

I went in for the subscription first time round, so at least the money was spent some time back and is out of mind!

 

[twisted moon]

is it any good?

 

[Eric]

Hard to say really. There were some interesting bits in the first issue, but I wasn't captivated and had to read it from cover to cover. The Vampire history was probably the most interesting. I dipped in and read an article every now and then. That probably sounds more negative than it is meant to I know I'll enjoy the other issues as they arrive, and I'm not sure what I really would want from a 'zine like this that they are not doing. I guess the other question is value for money - well it's £10 an issue unless you subscribe to their bundle. I doubt they are making their fortunes, it's evidently a labour of love, but being an old git £10 still seems like a lot of money - although I accept the days of magazines/comic being a couple of quid is long long gone! Will I get issues 5-8? Jury is out until I've seen the next issue or two, but quite possibly.