RPG Magazine index page... comments please

Posts: 1002 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:06 am

Greeting, now that my collection is comming out of storage I should be able to get the rpg magazine index underway, so I'm looking for comments on how poepl would like it set up/look/ etc as an example of it please click here...

http://www.arielarchives.com/Brett/Magazines/index.html

I have included 1 page "Australian Realms" issue 1 as an example (since I had it already done elsewere;) . I will also be doing a pure text list of each individual magazine and a masters one as well listing all of them... like on shannons webpage

http://www.erzo.org/~shannon/gaming/indices/glorantha-index.shtml

comments people? (if anyone cares that is)

Brette:)

Posts: 2437 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:47 am

Cover Scans of each issue would be nice. Not necessarily full page scans. Maybe just thumbnails. Enough to let a collector know what he's looking for, but not enough to encourage would-be fraudsters.

Looking Good. Nice and clear.

Posts: 1002 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:58 am

Cover scans are a given...

http://www.arielarchives.com/Brett/magazines/australianrealms01.html

has a thumbnail of the cover and if you click on the cover you get a full size scan of the cover as well

Brette:)

Posts: 2437 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:18 am

Will there be thumbnails for all your magazines/fanzines?

Thumbnails may also help to stop people buying fakes, like those issued of The Wanderer I bought. It would have been immediately obvious that they were fake if I could have compared them to a database.

I've flagged up the Gamelords Fakes on my site just incase anyone stumles across it.

I wouldn't mind a collection of Australian Realms myself.

Posts: 1193 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:59 am

I think it looks great Brett, especially with the Table of Contents for each issue and a cover scan. Very nice work and a real contribution to the collecting community, thank you.

Posts: 2892 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:46 pm

Be sure you don't replicate other work that Shannon did, Brette: no need to add additional work for yourself:

http://www.erzo.org/~shannon/gaming/indices/index.shtml

Posts: 2437 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:27 pm

grodog wrote:

Be sure you don't replicate other work that Shannon did, Brette: no need to add additional work for yourself:

http://www.erzo.org/~shannon/gaming/indices/index.shtml

Other than those indeces, is there any other information on that site? Cover scans, printing info etc?

The indeces are no use to you if you don't have the magazines. And if you already have the magazines, you don't need the indeces. Pictures of what the magazines look like would be really useful to those who don't know anything about them but want to collect D&D stuff.

Just my 2c as a newbie magazine/fanzine collector.

Posts: 939 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:14 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:

The indeces are no use to you if you don't have the magazines..

Well, they are very useful if you are looking only for issues with articles on particular subjects (say, Call of Cthulhu) or by certain authors (say, Paul Jacquays). It saves you from buying every issue to find those articles.

Posts: 1002 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:39 pm

zhowar1 wrote:

mbassoc2003 wrote:

The indeces are no use to you if you don't have the magazines..

Well, they are very useful if you are looking only for issues with articles on particular subjects (say, Call of Cthulhu) or by certain authors (say, Paul Jacquays). It saves you from buying every issue to find those articles.

Thats why I'll be doing that, nothing more annoying than wanting to find a particular article and going through x number of mags to find the thing...

Brette:)

Posts: 3151 · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:13 pm

Or trying to find what magazines have reviews for Judges Guild products.

ShaneG.

Posts: 3999 · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:21 am

I have pointed this item out once before:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8742654119&sspagena me=ADME%3AL%3ARTQ%3AUS%3A1&rd=1

Looks worth looking into.

Mark

Posts: 1002 · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:39 am

Yes have it, know The Mav back from the old rec.games.frp.marketplace days... think this one is talked about a while back when mike and I got one...

Thanks though;)

Brette:)

Posts: 3151 · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:26 am

Is it like the magazines..having all the content only minus the ads and pictures?

ShaneG.

Posts: 2437 · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:29 am

Plaag wrote:

Is it like the magazines..having all the content only minus the ads and pictures?

ShaneG.

I took it to be just a big index. If it had the magazine contents I'd buy one.

Posts: 1002 · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:57 am

yes it is a big index, nothing else

Brette:)

Posts: 1002 · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:22 am

mbassoc2003 wrote:

I wouldn't mind a collection of Australian Realms myself.

I should have a spare set of these...

Brette:)

Posts: 1002 · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:00 pm

http://www.arielarchives.com/Brett/Magazines/index.html

updated, now list most of the mags I know about (about 400! odd)and most of the issues I have, I have also complete 1 (Hahahaha) issue of Utter Drivel (Just scroll down the left side of the page, click on it, then click on the issue number, if you click on the thum of the cover, you will get a full scanned version of the cover as well...

Brette:)

Posts: 973 · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:28 am

Hey Brette. I was just searching the forums for 'Australian Realms' and happened upon this old thread and your index effort. Are you still working on this?

Actually, I put in low bids on that recent lot of Australian Relams by binagran and was surprised to win six of the issues. My question is - do you know how many issues were published?

Posts: 1002 · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:57 am

HermitFromPluto wrote:

Hey Brette. I was just searching the forums for 'Australian Realms' and happened upon this old thread and your index effort. Are you still working on this?

Actually, I put in low bids on that recent lot of Australian Relams by binagran and was surprised to win six of the issues. My question is - do you know how many issues were published?

Ah yes.. still working on this.. but slowly..

actually all the Aussie realm stuff is done (but prob not as detailed as this will be) its on my main aussie site and not the mag/zine part.. there is a full index of articles etc here.. (30 issues printed.. see link)

http://www.arielarchives.com/ARealms.html

Brette:)

Posts: 973 · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:02 am

Fantastic! Thanks.

I was just looking at your items wanted pages. I am pretty sure I went to CanCon in 83 and 84! But I very much doubt I still have any of the entry forms. I'll have to dig through some deep buried boxes. I have a few with HighSchool stuff somewhere - you never know....