Secret Passages #1: a new quarterly zine

You are the graph paper generation. The bright green flocked base generation. The Fighting Fantasy hand cramp fingers-for-bookmarks generation. The read White Dwarf from cover-to-cover generation. The sourcebooks in our school bag generation.

You can draw a Bolter from memory, judge blast radius by eye, and your heroes had back banners the size of barn doors. You're the roleplayers and wargamers of the 1980s and 1990s, too young for Lake Geneva and too old for Twitch.

You deserve to see the worlds you grew up with explored with the same authority and authenticity as classic videogames, mucky death metal bands, or direct-to-video slashers.

Instead, what you do have are:

1. Excessive coverage of Gary Gygax and the Lake Geneva gang. Yes, they're important, but it's like writing a history of punk that begins and ends in 1977.

2. Hour-long YouTube videos or podcasts about the history of particular games that consist of someone going GREETINGS MORTALS and then reading the Wikipedia page at you. We want to be the source that Wikipedia cites, not citing Wikipedia as our source.

3. Top-down interviews where a much-loved luminary breezes over 16 years and 60 books in 20 minutes. With the greatest of respect: take a breath, Ian Livingstone.

Secret Passages is going to change all of that.

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