Originally when it was founded back in the mid-70's White Dwarf
was a good general role-playing game's magazine. It covered D&D,
AD&D, Runequest, Traveller, Call of Cthulhu, and many more. This
was back when Games Workshop was a company importing and selling
all these in the UK. Ian Livingstone was the editor.  It was
well enough regarded that they were allowed to print the AD&D
combat tables from the Dungeon Master's Guide in issue 13 some 6
months before the guide was published (they were also printed in
Dragon Magazine). This issue sold out very quickly.  It also
used to some fun comics including "Thrud the Barbarian" and
"Travellers" (my favourite). The first comic (whose name I can't
remember) was a very early example of the work of David Lloyd
(who drew V for Vendetta).  As well as scenarios, reviews, and
little games it also used to publish fiction. This included some
very funny columns etc. by Dave Langford (editor etc. of the
Hugo winning fanzine Ansible).  One high point was that they
brought out a