Talk:Alarums and Excursions

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Is that thing still going? It takes me back... m.e. 12:04, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

It looks like the external link is broken....

I changed it to "first magazine" instead of "one of the first fanzines." I've often heard of A&E as the first, and I've never heard a counterclaim. I added contributors who have Wikipedia pages of their own (myself among them). I added the debt my game Over the Edge owes to A&E. Jonathan Tweet 05:02, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm changing it back to "one of the first." Claiming that it's the first based on one's own knowledge without proper references just leaves too much of a chance of being wrong. -- Talono 01:14, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Reference provided. (I've only been playing since 1975 myself; used to write for TSR.) -- Orange Mike 15:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Is it amateur if they're making enough money off it to pay off their mortgage early? It's not amateur, you can't even sign up for the email copy for free, despite it costing next to nothing in reproduction costs.

The oldest continually published RPG magazine amateur or professional will be publishing issue 360 this august. Alarums and Excursions began as a continuation of conversations started in the Los Angeles Speculative Fiction Society’s own newsletter, and grew to become one of the leading voices in the early RPG community. Many an RPG notable has appeared in A&E, and a number got their start there.

Mrs. Gold has published A&E with the able help of her husband, Barry for all these years. They even managed to pay off their mortgage early because of A&E.

You can contact Lee at: lee.gold (at) comcast (dot) net (alter as needed to email) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.18.178.137 (talk) 23:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


 * It's not a fanzine, it's an amateur press association. I don't know where the unsourced assertion that the Golds paid their mortgage off early via A&E came from. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:38, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Origin of the name
I came to this article expecting to find a note about a stage direction frequently found in the plays of William Shakespeare.

Whenever there was the sudden appearance of a disturbing character into a scene, the stage direction, alarums and excursions, indicated that other characters on the stage would be aroused into a chaotic state of panic and distress.

Perhaps it would be helpful to add just a brief note to this article to indicate that the name comes from a well-known stage direction in the plays of Shakespeare, and then sending the reader to a reliable article prepared by a Shakespeare scholar who can explain more about the origin of this curious phrase.

Montana Mouse 11:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.105.245 (talk)
 * It's in there. Wikipedia is not a dictionary; that's what Wiktionary is for. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  14:34, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Please note that Montana Mouse and the IPs that have added this question are indef-blocked User:Moulton. —DoRD (talk) 15:39, 7 September 2010 (UTC)