Adventurer Magazine #1 Review

 

So

My current rpg collecting is now in its final form, which is as follows;

1 - D&D stuff (mainly Forgotten Realms but a little bit fluid).

2 - Traveller stuff - as much as I want.

3 - OD&D - good luck with that on my budget!

4 - UK RPG magazines.

So (4) is where we are at here. UK magazines are generally cheapish and readily available, in fact  generally can be more than the item itself.

I will subsequently list what I have and where I'm at but for now here is a new acquisition, Adventurer #1.

Brief review, it's ok.

90p in 1986 seems about right and it has a reasonable amount of content.

The fantasy adventurer, of which this is part one of 2 is formulaic but solid, nothing new in heaven and earth but ok.

The CoC adventure is actually quite decent but again, nothing much is new. The maps though are quite decent , but seem a bit overproduced for what is required (1986 was a bit like this though).

Miniatures stuff is again of its time, standard issue figures by decentish painters.

The reviews shine, seem well balanced and well thought out, good stuff.

Adverts if course are a joy, we can never get back to the halcyon years where all these products were on, and remained on, shelves in the high street. I know that times have changed but......

Little snippet on the news page, true that but whatever.

Great advice

See what I mean, a bit overdone.

You should go to this, and maybe try and buy some D&D stuff.

First post of the new year and I haven't got a great deal to say, so just a brief stream of consciousness to get things going.

Part 1


I recently purchased a copy of Fr16 The Shining South from ebay which is a great item, just so you know. At the moment I am slowly but surely rebuying all of the Forgotten Realms items that I once owned and foolishly sold. I brought this for a fairly acceptable amount and when it arrived it turned out to be a softback reprint. This was my bad -the  auction clearly stated that it was a new reprint, I just hadn't read the description properly. The moral of this story is to pay attention - I have no issue with the seller and left positive feedback, after all he had done nothing wrong. However the same seller got a little bit of flak on a forum that I frequent which I felt was unfair. Without going into too many details why I generally don't use forums as much any more just because people are idiots - your thoughts??!!

Part 2

On KODT. Check out the Kickstarter and it's creator Ken Whitman for the Live Action videos.
Hours of endless fun for all the family and a great example of why kickstarter is potentially a bloody disaster!!

Part 3

I still haven't painted any of my miniatures - definitely this year, definitely.

Part 4

Looking for some new podcasts to listen too so any recommendations gratefully received.
(BTW please listen to the Grognard Files and the Smart Party, can't recommend either one enough.)

Part 5

There is no part 5.


Keep on gaming, or not if you're me!

Take Care

Carl

Me - it's all about me!

A brief introduction may be in order. I am Carl, a 48 year old from the South of England.
I have a huge fondness for RPGs as well as most other type of analogue games. My game playing is limited to a very small amount of Monopoly with my daughter - simply put I do not have the time or the freedom to play and enjoy games so I have restricted myself to enjoying them in a kind of sideways fashion by listening to podcasts, watching Youtube videos and reading a load of RPG books, as I once again expand my collection of game books.
I buy and sell a bit on Ebay in order to get this stuff, that way it doesn't impact the household finances. This also means that I get to look over loads of books that I most definitely won't be keeping for one reason or another. I am trying to be quite strict on what I keep as there is most certainly the risk of collection "creep". Over the years my collection has literally come and gone; my original stuff went many years ago, and I built up a reasonable amount up until about 4 or 5 years ago when I sold everything off. Whether or not this will be the last time is yet to be seen. (More on what I am collecting in a later entry).


So just a couple of other small points for this entry, as an idea of my interests and the type of thing I like.


Media I follow - again, I'll post more of my reasoning behind these at a later date.


The Grognard Files - podcast.
The Secret Cabal - podcast & Youtube Channel
Game Classy - podcast.
Shut Up & Sit Down - Podcast.
Real Lifes a B****er - blog
The Acaeum Forums - Website.
Lead Adventure Forums - Website
Watch it Played - Youtube Channel


And finally - this is the first RPG book I ever bought (not the actual copy - that's long gone).
From memory I got this in a beach shop in West Wittering(which seems odd even now) in around 1980. It's actually a fine book but I took a bit of stick back then because it wasn't the latest iteration of  the daddy of all RPGs.

Holmes Basic Rules