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On the look and feel of a magazine
by [username=Bifford]Bifford[/username]

DTRPG's printer, Lightning Source, stopped doing Side Saddle (that is, centre-fold with twin staples) books a good few years back (Q4 2020 tbp). They moved over to Perfect Bound (glued pages) only.

It wasn't until I ordered twenty copies of my new fanzine issue from Mixam (to ensure I had something to sell at FFF6 on the 5th Sept) in side saddle format that I realised just how much I miss it! The DTRPG perfect bound mag is a nice quality product, but it doesn't feel like a magazine should - it doesn't lay flat, it doesn't have a natural centrefold spread, the cover isn't a different weight or feel and doesn't have the glossy shine of a magazine.

So while the perfect bound book is nice, it feels more like a book than a magazine and I've just realised how very wrong that is! I may have to upload and order other issues from Mixam, too. What are your thoughts on this?


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by Forbidding

Gamescom is a video game trade fair held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This years convention will run from August 26 to 30.

• Gamescom 2026 Trailers | Main Showcase, Part 1
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Tempus Vitae
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Neon Abyss 2
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Matelotes
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TANUKI: Pon's Summer
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Night Plane
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Haunted Paws
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Sweetheart
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We Are So Cooked
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Amphibian
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Prospera
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APART
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Vikings Dynasty
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Medieval Dynasty - The Backwood
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Young Suns
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Nivalis Nights
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Aloft
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Hoarder
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Wanderburg
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BLACK WALLS
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A Short Quest
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by Forbidding

Gamescom is a video game trade fair held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This years convention will run from August 26 to 30.

• Gamescom 2026 Trailers | Main Showcase, Part 1
• Gamescom 2026 Trailers | Main Showcase, Part 2

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Everwind
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Sword Sage: Awakening
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The Sinking City 2
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We Were Here Tomorrow
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Guns of Eschaton
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Hillthorn
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Breakaway Hockey League
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DNA NEMESIS
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Gallipoli
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Police Simulator (2028)
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Nailcrown
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MR. RECORDS
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Last Ditch Effort
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Into the Wind
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Kingdom III: Rising Realms
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Dungeons & Dragons: Long Rest Tavern
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Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster
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Ritual Tides
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Escape from Playtime
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Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2
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by Forbidding

Gamescom is a video game trade fair held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This years convention will run from August 26 to 30.

• Gamescom 2026 Trailers | Main Showcase, Part 1
• Gamescom 2026 Trailers | Main Showcase, Part 2

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The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival
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Wolcen II
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CLUTCH (2028)
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Graveyard Keeper II
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Join Us
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SPINE - This is Gun Fu
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Star Wars: Galactic Racer
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Alkimya: House of Wisdom
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Trees Hate You
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Bye Bye Bonnie
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Arizona Sunshine (2026)
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Construction Simulator: Evolution
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Hieronymus
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PixelJunk Monsters 3
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by Rachel Carpenter

I think I'd rather face Tsathoggua...

This morning's BSOD set the tone for how the day would go. Big plans became smaller. Much smaller. Rachel's Spider Solitaire Project seems to attract chaos. Working on the cards for 1 of the 3 games in the project (Out of time!, in case you were wondering) is what caused today's blue monster.

I wanted ALL cards for ALL 3 games done today. So I could get back to Mythic Monday reports and some Friday-related shenanigans.

Instead, I have 8 more cards to do for Out of time! and nothing got done on Vines of Nineveh or Fate's Cat: Tangled Threads at all. *sigh*

Then I learned that Tim Curry had died...

Gosh, I love Clue...

Here's to hoping for a better Thursday.
-Rachel

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by Lowell Kempf

I don’t know really anything about the Persona video games but I know some folks really like them. Doing a bit of reading, I found out Persona is a spinoff of another video game series, Megami Tensai. Which I learned was based on a book series, Digital Devil Story by Ayla Nishanti. The first couple books have had fan translations. So I read the first book.

I have read that Megami Tensai and Persona are philosophical, deep works. Man, the apple must have flat out run from the tree.

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After high schooler Akemi Nakajima gets badly beaten by bullies, he uses his insane computer skills to summon up the demon Loki to brutally murder his abusers. (Wow, what a sentence.) However, this releases Loki into the human world and opened the human world to the demon world.

While the term edgelord wasn’t a term back in 1985, the behavior certainly existed. And, boy, this is a clear cut example. There are definitely scenes that are extreme just for the sake of shocking and grossing the reader. On top of that, Loki’s almost exclusive targeting of women definitely smacks of misogyny. Some parts are just ick.

And Nakajima is a hot mess of a protagonist in a way that doesn’t feel intentional. If he had been horrified by what he’d done, he’d be sympathetic. Instead, he aides and abets Loki, sacrificing students and teachers to him _until_ it’s a girl he likes. Up until then, he is not even an anti-hero. He’s a flatout villain archetype.

And Yumiko, his love interest and co-protagonist, also has issues. She basically falls in love with him at first sight and is sympathetic to him even seeing him sacrifice a teacher to Loki. And her moment of strength quickly falls into becoming a damsel in distress (and dead) that Nakajima has to rescue (and resurrect)

There are some excuses. They are supposed to be the reincarnation of lovers. At the end, Nakajima owns up to the fact that he’s done some terrible things and has to do something about that. However, we’re basically just told that he is our protagonist and we’re supposed to like him. It’s worse than an Adam Sandler movie.

With that said, there are some interesting elements to the book. It’s a very 1985 vision of using computers to summon demons. The heroic side, becoming embodiments of deities in order to be able to fight demons was interesting. In all honesty, the best bits of the book actually probably worked better as a video game than as a book.

From what I can tell, out of the nine books in the series, only the first two have been translated into English. And, after reading the first one, I really don’t know if I’m going to bother hunting down the second one. Ultimately, Digital Devil Story is an intellectual curiosity at best.

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