List of tabletop game fanzines

This is a list of fanzines that focused on tabletop games.

0-9

• 20 Years On/Twenty Years On - postal gaming

A

• Abyss
• Acolyte - tabletop games (previously known as The Apocalypse) generally
• Adventurer's Anonymous [ed. Richard Stitson]
• Aerial Servant
• The AHIKS Kommandeur & European Newsletter
• Alarums and Excursions
• Alice [ed. Richard Campbell; re-launch of This Way Up]
• Alien Star
• All-Star Replay - US
• Amulet [ed. Richard Henderson with Alex Bardy]
• The Arbalest [ed. Paul Slusarewicz; Stormbringer, Call of Cthulhu, Dr. Who RPG, and other RPGs covered; not to be confused with the anarchist zine of the same name]
• The Argubusier
• Aslan
• Astradyne - postal games
• Atu XVIII [ed. Trevor Mendham; University of Warwick clubzine; FRP, discussion and dip-zine]

B

• Backstabbers United Monthly [BUM] [ed. Malcolm Cornelius; started off as an En Garde and Diplomacy gamezine, with other RPGs added; 1988-]
• Balrog's Banter
• Barbarous League
• The Bat
• Beaumains [ed. Gareth Jones; devoted to Pendragon RPG and things Arthurian]
• The Beholder
• Black Knight [ed. Angela Times]
• Black Rider
• Blood, Guts and Beer
• Blue Shaboo [ed. Brian Duguid; "rolegame" zine]
• Bohemian Rhapsody [ed. Malcolm Smith; RPG and dipzine]
• A Bolt from the Blue (was previously NMR!)
• Bone of Contention [ed. Steven Rawlinson & Fergus Selby]
• Boojum (was previously Chimaera)
• The Booklet of Many Things
• Boris
• Borkelby's Folly [ed. Ray Gillham; Jorune RPG zine]
• Brian Dolton's Book of Flower Pressing
• Brick in the Face [ed. Fergus Selby]
• The Bubonic Plagiarist
• Burning Rubber

C

• Campaign - wargame magazine
• Carnel - UK fanzine started in 1994
• Cassandra [ed. Anthony Bourke & Damien Maddalena; RPG chat zine with diplomacy waiting lists; 8 issues, Sept 1985 - Aug 1986]
• Centurian ["sequel" to Blue Shaboo #2]
• Cerebreton [ed. Alex Bardy, mostly SF RPGs]
• Chaos Lord
• CHARGE! - miniature wargaming newsletter / fanzine published quarterly for American Civil War gamers
• Cheader's Digest - Canadian
• Cheesehole News - board wargames
• Chimaera
• The Church Mouse
• Citizens of Grenada [ed. Andrew Meek]
• Clobbering Time!
• Codpiece [ed. Ralph Horsley, 10+ issues, originally Convert or Die]
• The Combat - board wargames
• Combat Is Glory
• Conflict Historical Study - board wargames
• Conflict of Chaos
• Controversial Repertoires of an Alcoholic Prat [ed. Bob Topley; 1985-?]
• Corrosive Comix Un-Ltd
• Crasimoff's World Newsletter
• Crimson Steel [ed. Andy Warner, one issue]
• Cruel Worlds [ed. M. Donkersley; 1985-?]
• Crystal Ball
• Cult of Anubis [ed. N.J. Booth]
• Cut & Thrust

D

• D&D Fortnightly
• Dagon
• Dankendismal - early D&D fanzine from the 1970s
• Danse Macabre - postal games
• Dark Elf
• Daughters of Dool [ed. Bob Jackson; RPG and perzine]
• Dead Elf
• Deck of Many Things
• Death's Dance Taken Slowly [ed. Brian Dolton,?13 issues, RPG theory]
• Delusions of Grandeur [ed. Nathan Cubitt, with Mike Blake & Paul Duncanson; 1988-1995, 4 issues plus a one shot, compilation "Best Of" published in 2002 and edited Robert Rees of "Carnal"]
• Demon Issue
• Demon's Blood
• Demon's Drawl
• Descending Darkness
• Destiny [ed. E. Rackstraw; SF RPGs]
• Dib, Dib, Dib - postal games
• The Dice Bag
• Die Rubezahl (was previously Monsterous Perversion)
• Dig My Dogma [ed. Mark Wisher]
• Dispatch It
• Dolchstoss - Dippy zine
• Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Diplomacy Player
• DOOL [ed. Bob Jackson; formerly Daughters of DOOL]
• Doombook of Chaos
• Doomed Dwarves Journal [ed. Gavin White]
• Dragon Roar
• Dragon's Breath [ed. Warren Barnes]
• Dragonfields
• Dragonfire
• DragonLords
• Dragonlore [Alexander Hildyard, at least 6 issues]
• Dross
• Drune Kroll
• drunk & disorderly
• The Dungeoneer [ed. Charles Anshell, early US prozine with wide UK distribution]
• Durin's Bane [ed.?, 1986-?]

E

• EdgeWork
• Eh? [ed. Alex Bardy]
• Eidolon [ed. Mark Jones; Cthulhu & PBM Sopwith, etc.; successor to Sacrificing the Goat]
• Empire
• Espana
• Europa - board wargames
• The Europa Newsletter
• Evermist
• Exeunt [ed. Ben Goodale]
• The Explorer
• Explosive Rune
• Eye of All Seeing Wonder [ed. Dave Morris; Tekumel & Empire of the Petal Throne]

F

• F-Plan / Five Year Plan (was previously The Malkuth Scripts)
• Fantasia [ed. Gerard Birkhill; RPG reviews]
• Fantasia Today
• The Fantasy Herald
• Fantasy Tales
• Fantasy Tomb [ed. Andrew Thompson; ?1 issue]
• Faster Than Light (was previously JAWZ)
• Fat Knite [ed. Steve Blincoe]
• The Fiery Cross
• Filibuster - Dippy zine
• Fire and Water [ed. Andrew Hill]
• Fire the Arquebusiers!
• First Excursion (was previously Twiqu)
• First Strike [ed. M. Clarke]
• FIST [ed.?; short for *F*anzine L*ist*]
• Flame
• Flames of Albion
• Floating World [ed.?; FGU RPGs]
• Fractal Spectrum
• Fusions [ed. Warwick University SF&F Society, thoughtful RPG discussion]

G

• Gallimaufray - Dippy zine
• Game News / Game Trade News
• Gamelog
• Gamer's Guide - gaming magazine first published in 1980 by Brian E. Carmody
• Gamers
• Games Gazette
• Games Review
• The Gamer's Connection
• Gamesmaster
• Gazfinc
• Glamdring
• Glarg [ed. Steven Hampson]
• Grav Gauss and Pods Rifles [RPG clubzine of York U. SF&F club; renamed "Grave Podes and Grouse Trifles" after issue 3]
• Greatest Hits - Dippy zine
• Grey Worlds
• Green Goblin
• Grim
• Grim Reaper
• Grimlord
• Ground Zero
• The Guilder

H

• Hacking Times
• Harvest Time
• Hellfire [ed. A.S. Lilly]
• Herald - PBM games
• Hits to Kill
• Hocus Pocus
• Holy Avenger [ed.?, 1986-?]
• Home of the Brave
• Hopscotch
• The Horror Show
• Horse Manure [ed. S. Cooper, 1986-?]
• Hounds of Avalar
• Hyperactive [ed. Nick Edwards; APA Zine aimed at helping "Newcomers" to zine editing]

I

• I Don't Wanna go Back in the Box [ed. John J. Smith]
• If
• Illusionist's Vision
• Imazine
• Immoral Minority [ed. P. Wilkinson]
• The Impaler
• Infernal Desire
• Inflammatory Material
• Instant Karma [ed. James Wallis]
• Intellect Devourer [ed. Dave Hughes]
• Interface
• Interim
• Into the Darkness [ed. Nick Price]
• Iron Orchid [ed. Nick Edwards, 8+ issues, RPG & PBMs]
• Iskra [ed. Tom Conway, music and RPG zine]
• IT
• It's Clobbering Time [eds. Andrew de Salis, Steve Weekes; superhero RPGs]
• Ivory, Peacocks and Apes [eds. Pete Lindsay and Gavin Greig started mid 1990s, 2 issues, on hiatus]
• Ivory Tower

J

• JagdPanther
• JAWZ
• Journal of the Adulterated Sanity Role-Playing Gamers
• Journal of the Senseless Carnage Society

K

• The Kommandeur - board wargames

L

• Lankhmar Star Daily
• L'anno Del Topo
• The Last Province
• Lion & Lamb Chronicles [ed.?; Norwegian APA-zine with English contributors]
• Living the Orclife [ed. C.E. Nurse; less of a zine than a serialized RPG]
• Lokasenna
• Lone Warrior
• The Lords of Chaos

M

• Mad Policy
• Major Thompson Lives in France
• Making Moves [ed. ?; Warhammer FRP, Call of Cthulhu and other RPGs]
• The Malkuth Scripts
• Manic Depressive
• The Martian Chronicles
• Masters of the Prime
• Megalomania - Dippy zine
• Mercurius Aulicus
• Military Enthusiast - board wargames
• Miniature Wargames
• Miser's Hoard
• Modern Heroes
• Moonscape
• Monochrome
• Monsterous Perversion
• Moranme Jobswurf
• Moronica Rlpsnore
• Morningstar - Australian zine
• Mouse Police
• My Father Killed a Man [ed. Jez Keen; one off zine, contains the Dreamscape-like RPG "Carnations and Razorblades"]
• Mystic Crystal

N

• Necro-Worlds
• The Necromancer
• Necronomicon
• Nemesis [ed. Tim Hyde]
• Netherworld Continuum
• New Beholder
• New Fusions [University of Warwick SF & Fantasy Society clubzine]
• The New Zealand Wargamer
• News from Bree
• Next Stop Jupiter
• Night Dreams
• Night Voyages
• Nightflyer [ed.?; Oxford University RPG Society clubzine]
• NMR!
• Norst Claw
• Now Eat the Rabbit (was previously The Guilder)
• The Nugget

O

• Obscurity Inc
• Obsidian Rex Quarterly [ed. P. Adams]
• Ode
• Oink
• Olympus
• The Oracle
• Oracle of Almost All Knowledge
• Orc Torc
• Orc's Revenge
• Out of the Mist
• Out of the Mist (combines Shadowfire and Mystic Crystal)
• Ovum - board wargames
• Owl and Weasel

P

• Palantir
• Pandemonium [ed. M. de Monti; horror, comics, roleplaying]
• Pandemonium - US publication
• Panzerkreuser
• Party
• Pavic Tales [ed.?; Runequest 3rd edition fanzine]
• PBM
• Perfidious Albion
• Perchance [ed. Jim Johnston]
• Perspiring Dreams
• Pete Calcraft Fanclub Newsletter
• Pete Tamlyn Fanclub Newsletter
• Phanta Carta - fanzine published by Rick Krebs about 1970s Dungeon & Dragons campaigns
• Phantasy
• The Phantasy Network Newsletter
• Piland Bugle
• Polaris [ed. Simon Prest; 1 issue, 1987, Call of Cthulhu]
• Practical Wargamer
• Prisoners of War
• Protoplasm
• Psycho
• Psychobabble [Irish]
• Psychopath
• Punt & Pass
• Pursue & Destroy - board wargames
• Putty Riffo

Q

• Quasits and Quasars
• Quick Quincy Gazette - US publication

R

• Rage in Eden [ed. Richard Mumford]
• Rapscallion
• RCM [ed. Simon Ford, 1986-?]
• Read Pheasant Throughout [ed. Nick Eden; Runequest, roleplaying and comics]
• Red Fox
• Red Giant
• Red Shift [ed. Jez Keen, more of a perzine with creative writing and RPG ideas, one issue]
• Revolution
• Ringwraith's Shadow
• Ripping Yarns
• Role Call - list of British dippyzines and wargame zines
• Rolegaming
• Roleplayer
• Roleplaying [? ed. Joe Deckchair]
• The Roleplaying Karma Sutra
• Rostherne Games Review
• Die Rubezahl [ed. Pete Blanchard, sequel to Monstrous Perversion)
• Runeriter [ed. Neil Smith; Runequest RPG]
• Runestone
• Ryth Chronicle - from the US

S

• Sacrificing The Goat
• Sarceen's Knowledge [ed.? 1 issue, Sky Realms of Jorune]
• Sauce of the Nile
• Scan
• School for Scandal
• The Scroll
• The Second Five Year Plan (was previously The Malkuth Scripts)
• Secrets of the Koan
• Seventh Sin of the Salamander [ed. Jonathan Laidlow]
• SEWARS
• Serendipity
• Shadowfire
• Shokwave
• Signal - Canadian
• Skullcrusher [ed. Richard Langrish and others; RPG hardware and other crunchy bits]
• Sleuth Times
• Slingshot
• Snot Rag [ed.?, 1987-?]
• The Sorcerer's Scrolls
• Sound & Fury
• Space Operations [ed. Brian Scott, Space Opera & other FGU games]
• Spawn of Chaos
• Spectral Visions
• Spit 4 [ed. D. Evens]
• Spitting From the Battlements
• Spreadsheet
• Stardate
• Starquester
• Stielkrieg
• The Storm Ruler
• Storm Lord
• The Stormlord - from the UK
• Strategic Reserve
• Superhero UK
• Swabbers
• Swansea With Me
• Swordplay

T

• Take That You Fiend
• Tales From Tanelorn
• Tales of the Reaching Moon
• Tau Ceti Phoenix: Apocrypha
• Telegraph Road [ed. Jeremy Nuttall, formerly Demon's Drawl]
• Tempestuous Orifice
• Terror Tome
• The Thing that Came from the Dungheap [ed. Michael Duggan]
• This Way Up
• Thunderstruck
• Thunderwind
• TnT - Tunnels & Trolls fanzine that was published by Ken St. Andre
• Tome of Horrors
• Torturers Apprentice
• Totally Zane [ed. Linda Little, mostly perzine, with some PBM and RPGs]
• Tragsnart [ed. Jon ?; subzine in Dool, and others; and also an online version with reviews of other vintage zines]
• Trizine
• Trojan Horse [ed. Andy Evans, diplomacy zine with D&D chat]
• Trollcrusher
• TTYF International
• Twinworld [ed. Mike Straaten, AD&D and Traveller]
• TWIQU

U

• Ultimatum [ed. Thomas Lynton]
• Underworld Oracle
• Utter Drivel [ed. Gordon McLellan with Ben Goodale; #12+1 is a joint zine with the editor of "Moronica Ripsnore"]

V

• Vacuous Grimoire
• Variant
• Verbal Diarrhoea
• Vienna
• VIP of Gaming
• Voom Vat

W

• Walamalaysia Gazette
• The Wanderer
• The War Machine
• Wargame News
• Warped Sense of Humor [ed. Julie Glig]
• Weirdbook
• Wereman [ed. James Wallis; 9 issues, 1982-84, RPG hardware, first published works by James Wallis & Spike Y Jones]
• The Westron [ed.?; news of a D&D postal campaign]
• White Elephant [ed.?; Irish, sequel to The Guilder]
• White Rabbit [ed. Maurice Thomas]
• White Shadow
• The Wild Hunt - from the US
• The Wind's Third Quarter The Wind's Sixth Quarter The Wind's Ninth Quarter
• Wolvesbane [ed. Jon French; AD&D]
• The World Builder
• Wotsit
• The Writings of a Converted Wraith
• Wyrm's Claw
• Wyrm's Footnotes
• Wyrmfire

X

• XATAXOMBE

Y

• Year of the Rat

Z

• Zadragorzette
• Zeppelin - Canadian magazine
• Zine To Be Believed

See also

• List of tabletop game magazines