Wyrm's Footnotes

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'Wyrm's Footnotes'
Editor Greg Stafford
First issue1976;49 years ago (1976)
Final issue1982;43 years ago (1982)
Company Chaosium
CountryUS
Contents page of Issue #1 (1976) Cover of first issue of Wyrms Footnotes.png
Contents page of Issue #1 (1976)

Wyrm's Footnotes is a gaming magazine first published in 1976 by Chaosium that ran for 14 issues, and ceased publication in 1982.

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History

Wyrm's Footnotes was originally a house organ for Chaosium that featured articles about Chaosium's first publication, White Bear and Red Moon . [1] Issue 1, edited by Greg Stafford, was a mimeographed and stapled fanzine that featured variant rules for White Bear and Red Moon, and histories of the Glorantha setting. [2] : 249 

Starting in Issue #3, advertising appeared for other Chaosium products such as the board games Elric , Lords of the Middle Sea , and Troy . [1] Issue 4 was a more professional-looking digest-sized saddle-stitched magazine. Issue 5 was a full-sized magazine that featured an article about Chaosium's new fantasy role-playing game Runequest . Starting with Issue 8, Charlie Krank became the editor. Issue 11 (Spring 1981) featured a full-color cover. [1]

After Chaosium began to publish their second magazine, Different Worlds , in 1979, Runequest became the sole focus of Wyrm's Footnotes. [1]

By 1982, Chaosium found it was too expensive to publish two magazines, and dropped Wyrm's Footnotes after Issue 14 in favor of Different Worlds. [1]

After the demise of Wyrm's Footnotes, articles from the magazine were gathered up and anthologized, first in RuneQuest Companion , and then in Wyrms Footprints , the latter published by Moon Design Publications. [3]

Thirty years after the cancellation of the original magazine, Moon Design Publications published Wyrms Footnotes #15 (Summer 2012) with new Glorantha material by Greg Stafford and other writers. [4] : 59 

Reception

In Issue 25 of the British wargaming magazine Perfidious Albion , Charles Vasey reviewed Issue 3, and noted that it was "a 44-page 'zine using fancy electro-stencils. The standard and number of illustrations is worthy of note." After reviewing the large number of articles, Vasey concluded, "Well worth purchasing for the owner of [Chaosium's] games — which should be everyone." [5]

In Issue 43 of The Space Gamer , W.G. Armintrout commented that "I found the magazine to be required reading for the Glorantha-oriented RQ gamemaster, but only optional for the non-Glorantha GM." [6]

Reviews

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Appelcline, Shannon. "The Wyrm's Footnotes Index" . Retrieved 2025-04-16.
  2. ↑ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '70s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN   978-1-61317-075-5.
  3. ↑ Pettengale, Paul (December 1995). "Games Reviews". Arcane. No. 1. pp. 73–74.
  4. ↑ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN   978-1-61317-087-8.
  5. ↑ Vasey, Charles (February 1978). "Magazine Reviews". Perfidious Albion . No. 25. p. 13.
  6. ↑ Armintrout, W.G. (September 1981). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer . No. 43. Steve Jackson Games. p. 38.
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