I don't know which product have watched my fellow reviewer(s) but unfortunately I have to say that we are facing yet another messin' up of a classic of role-playing gaming, I don't even want to consider the idea that the culrpit behind this crime was the mythical Judges Guild.
I mean, I understand that we are talking about magazines - maybe should be better say fanzines ante litteram - dating back more than 30 years ago, I understand that maybe to find copies in pristine condition is quite difficult nowadays but it certainly should not be impossible for the publisher who printed them so long ago.
Instead what we have here?
A series of scans (strictly black and white, so that you can - words of the website, not mine - download them best) made literally with hog's feet, especially some volumes are virtually unreadable, a sign that not only the originals were not good (they seem almost scans of photocopies, to be honest) but that has been used a really poor scanner for the job!
This is a real shame, because despite the years and all the “evolution” (but are we so sure of that?) that this hobby has known over the decades, there is something in these magazines that has been certainly lost in time and that personally miss a lot.
Here you can find ideas, adventures, reviews, opinions and everything that made role-playing worthy of playing; what you'll not find here, instead, are the atrocious mental handjobs, such all those “angst-ridden " characters and all that nonsense that – thanks to the Wizards of the Coast and the White Wolf - have literally plagued the role playing game arena in the past one and half decade.
Not only that, but unlike the "magazines" of the present day (especially whose in electronic format that are all the rage today) in these old Pegasus magazines ALL RPG that were the most popular in the early 80s are treated with the same importance and dignity; there is none, in this magazine, of the subtle slandering of "the other's games", nor are covered just the “house's” games or whose of this or that publisher, as I have unfortunately seen it happen too often in recent years.
Definitely a must have for any fan of classic RPG but, by God, ask 12 euro plus spares for such low-quality scans is a real rip-off!
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