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from issue seven onward; the irregular autobiographical/interview feature ″My Life and Roleplaying″; and the industry scuttlebutt column ″A Letter from Gigi″ by the pseudonymous Gigi D'Arn.
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was published bimonthly from 1979 to 1987, for forty-seven issues. Chaosium published the first thirty-eight issues from 1979 to 1985, and
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of role-playing games; reviews of games and miniatures; and reviews of current books and movies of interest to role-playing gamers.
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and other Chaosium board games, but quickly became a forum for discussion of Glorantha, and was rebranded to be the official
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published the final nine issues between 1985 and 1987. Tadashi Ehara was the magazine's editor at both publishers.
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published support articles, scenarios, and variants for various role-playing games including
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as a general-interest role-playing magazine. At that time Chaosium was primarily a
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Designers & Dragons. '80-'89 : A history of the roleplaying game industry
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Tékumel Sourcebook: The World of the Petal Throne, book 2, 1988
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publisher, but had also published its own role-playing game,
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and others; play techniques and strategies for players and
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Index

Different World
Issue 1 1979, cover by Steve Swenston
Tadashi Ehara
Chaosium
Different Worlds Publications
Greg Stafford
USA
diffworlds.com
role-playing games
magazine
Dungeons & Dragons
RuneQuest
Traveller
Call of Cthulhu
gamemasters
Steve Oliff
Bill Willingham
Steve Purcell
Larry DiTillio
Tadashi Ehara
Greg Stafford
Chaosium
board games
Glorantha
White Bear and Red Moon
Dragon Pass
Nomad Gods
Wyrm's Footnotes
White Bear and Red Moon
Sleuth Publications

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