05-16-2019, 07:24 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicago
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I miss Pyramid
Okay. I’ll admit it. I miss the ritual of downloading the new issue every month (or week, or month before that) and devouring it. I know it won’t be coming back, but still. . .
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05-16-2019, 08:26 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Yukon, OK
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Re: I miss Pyramid
Me too.
So many short simple ideas that will not be seen.
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05-21-2019, 06:41 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Re: I miss Pyramid
Also a great place to make $$$
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05-21-2019, 08:58 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: I miss Pyramid
Makes me think I should have stayed subbed more often for 3, rather than picking and choosing my interests.. I subbed almost all of 2 (where did I store those files?), but yeah. It is missed.
I’m starting to think that Gaming Ballistic is dawning on becoming the New Pyramid, or at the very least least a refuge for some of our old favorites that haven’t locked upon a market segment of their own. That’s a main reason I’ve already backed the current Four Perilous Tales offering for TFT (should i mention I haven’t bought TFT yet?), it’s fun to see momentum building. A huge reason I got it was seeing the familiar authors on board. There’s also a telling exchange on the DFRPG forums today where Dalin mentions missing Pyramid and was lamenting that perhaps this would have been the year where he would finally try his hand at writing for the mag... and shortly thereafter Doug posted that he “sent PM”. So perhaps a place for new authors to try their skills? The future is taking shape before us.
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05-23-2019, 03:42 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Orem, Utah, USA
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Re: I miss Pyramid
When the first edition of Pyramid started it was a general games magazine, replacing Roleplayer and Autoduel Quarterly. In addition to material for GURPS and Car Wars it contained articles for Ogre, Toon and reviews of all sorts of other games from tabletop to PC. Then it became a subscription website and from there it moved into being a GURPS only PDF magazine.
Now SJG is getting rid of Pyramid entirely and kick-starting both an Ogre specific and Fantasy Trip specific magazine. Maybe someday they'll come full circle and bring back Pyramid as a general gaming magazine again. |
05-24-2019, 03:33 AM | #6 | |
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Location: near London, UK
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Re: I miss Pyramid
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We saw with Pyramid volume 3 that even within the group of GURPS players there's some division; if you only play dungeon bashes, the sci-fi articles aren't any use to you. So that means either part of each issue is wasted, and you feel you aren't getting value for money; or you skip individual issues, which means you don't subscribe, so you may then forget to buy the ones you do want. Why didn't this apply back in the day? Well, it did - all the general games magazines have folded or gone specific-game. And there are so many more games out there now, that unless you're specifically a fan of everything SJGames does – across all the people who've worked for the company – the chances that you play lots of them are fairly low. In short, I miss Pyramid too, but there were still some issues that were complete duds for me.
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05-24-2019, 10:16 AM | #7 | |
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Re: I miss Pyramid
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05-30-2019, 04:17 AM | #8 |
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Re: I miss Pyramid
Colour me intrigued.
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