Editing White Dwarf (section)

== The Old Times ==

In the beginning, [[Ian Livingstone]] (not yet knighted) founded this as a rubbish magazine from London that advertised whatever games GW had the rights to publish in the UK, including [[Dungeons & Dragons]] (several monsters were actually born out of White Dwarf's "[[Fiend Factory]]" article, where fans submitted new monsters - this is where the [[Githyanki]] came from), [[Traveller]], and [[RuneQuest]]. When they produced their own game, [[Warhammer]], it became a primary focus of their magazine.  Issue 93 (from 1987) is a big one in /tg/ history, because that's when they announced [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]].

The halcyon days were around 1998-99, when 3rd edition 40k was shiny and new and Adrian '[[Ork|WAAAAAAGH]]' Wood worked there on a reasonably frequent basis. The general level of grimdark was pretty low and they even included battle reports for the good specialty games as and when they got released, most notably [[Mordheim]] and [[Battlefleet Gothic]]. Oh and they used to actually put army lists before all of their battle reports, and gave the actual turn-by-turn play.  They stopped doing the former because people with calculators were able to backwards engineer army lists from them and thus not buy [[codex|codices]] (luckily the internet came along, making buying anything that can be stored in a PDF strictly optional), and they stopped the latter because it meant that their flavor-of-the-month army could get humiliated. Sales fell from here. It was a depressing time for Games Workshop. 

White Dwarf also used to have a [[Chapter Approved]] column with experimental rules and errata.  The errata went away when GW realized that they could put errata online and use the saved space for more advertisements, and by the time the experimental rules became actual rules, GW was no longer doing playtesting in public.

Anyway, White Dwarf is alright, but no where near as awesome as it once was. The real point of decline was when it started shilling for the [[The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game|Lord of the Rings game]] that no-one ever played.

In 2012, GW re-released it. It became a decent magazine, but not worth ten dollars.

[[File:White Dwarf Grombrindal.jpg|300px|thumbnail|right|[[Grombrindal]]. The dwarf that's the magazine's mascot <s>and the one after which it's named</s> akshyually the magazine came first.]]