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Print Version of Issue 2 Now Available

Tom Stephens — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:34:50 +0000

If you are someone who likes to have physical copies of the magazine, the print edition of isse 2 is now available. We had hoped to have it available at the same time as the PDF version but keep running into delays in getting the print media ready to go. But it is available now and looks great. If you want to grab a copy, jump on over to the Issue 2 product page on DriveThruRPG to order one.

Keep exploring!

Print Version of Issue 1 Now Available

Tom Stephens — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:04:22 +0000

I'm pleased to announce that the print version of issue 1 of the Frontier Explorer is now available. As this was our first attempt at this, it took us a little longer than we would have liked to work through the process. For future issues the print edition will be available closer to, if not at the same time as, the public release of the electronic version. (Remeber that by registering here at the magazine's website, you will get a sneak peak preview a week or two in advance of the public release).

The print edition is full color throughout, just like the PDF, and is bound saddle stitched (staple in the middle) so that it will lay open and flat on the table if you so desire. The town map from the Mooks Without Number adventures (pages 22-23) was positioned to be on the center pages of the print edition and is printed as a single complete map. As such it can be easily removed and placed on your gaming table for use while running the adventure or anywhere else you'd like to use it in your campaign.

Our print editions will be available through the DriveThruRPG site (where you can also download the electronic version as well). If you're interested in having a physical copy, jump on over to the issue 1 product page and order one.

I'd call it a success

Tom Stephens — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:24:31 +0000

It's been just over a week since we released issue one of the Frontier Explorer and the response has been pretty amazing. In fact the magazine has generated much more response that I expected, by quite a bit. While the magazine is great, the Star Frontiers community that it is primarily aimed at is fairly small, or so I thought. I'll be honest, I was expecting maybe 50-100 downloads from our website for issue one and that we'd be doing a lot of advertising and getting the word out to tell people about the magazine over the next few months as we went to press with issue two. Needless to say, the response has been much greater than I expected.

From our website alone, we've had over 200 downloads in the ten days since we released the magazine. On Tuesday of this week, we also made it available at DriveThruRPG and we've had another 250+ downloads from that site as well. That's over 450 downloads from the two sources in just over the first week (The actual total as of this writing is 488). I'm ecstatic and amazed at the response. The real test, of course, will be to see how many come back for issue two, but I think we're off to a great start.

We've also had great feedback from several people complimenting us on the magazine. We have even had a new author contact us about submitting an article. I think that has been our greatest success story of issue one. We really expected to have to put out two or three issues before we started receiving unsolicited submissions. The fact that they are already coming in is great.

We're already hard at work on issue two and planning issues three through five. Watch this space for more news and announcements and keep exploring the frontier.