White Dwarf is a magazine first published in 1977 by British games manufacturer Games Workshop. At first it was dedicated to a wide variety of role-playing games, the magazine today has evolved into an exclusively dedicated tome to the wargames miniatures made by Games Workshop, mainly for their core gaming systems of:
Warhammer 40,000
Lord of the Rings
First published in 1977 and fully focused on wargaming and RPG, it received a massive injection of interest after the first editions of the Role Playing Game Dungeons & Dragons, published in the United Kingdom by GW (Games Workshop), referred to White Dwarf on its back page. In doing this it opened the White Dwarf Mag' to people who had bought the D&D game and allowed them to order the magazine directly from Games Workshop, therefore immediately establishing a broad base and excellent circulation.
White Dwarf was hugely influential in the 1980s and helped to popularise Role-Playing Games to a broad spectrum of people, including those American RPGs for which Games Workshop had the UK licence Template:Fact.
Over the years the magazine went through some quite revolutionary changes, in so far as when it was first released as a general magazine on all aspects of RPGs, tabletop and board games to one that focussed exclusively on GWs own products and publications.
This became more and more obvious as WD moved into its century editions 100-120 - then we see the changes really start to take hold.
As the White Dwarf took hold of the market we saw the Citadel Journal, (CJ was never a once a month mag, it came and went when the editors felt the need to push one out!) start to decline and the WD began to be the bible for 1980's gamers. The magazine had always been the best means for Games Workshop to publish their newly released rules and ideas/suggestions for their games as well as a means to showcase new developments. Although today's WD seems to be a watered down version of the White Dwarf of the bygone era's it still includes articles on all rules updates, new miniatures, photos and background, campaigns, scenarios, hobby news, basically anything you need to know about the Games Workshop universe.
Today the magazine is exclusively a miniature wargames tome and thoroughly covers the figures, miniatures and hobby paraphernalia made by Games Workshop.
Richie
http://wargamersworld.co.uk
The store is being built to open an avenue for gamers like me who still have a penchant for the oldies:)) Be it Ral Partha through to Citadel and then on up through the Rogue Trader days up to today's Warhammer 40K (40000) and Games Workshop Fantasy universes we hope you will find what you have been searching for (at reasonable prices).
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