The magazine's content is divided between the three core games ("Warhammer Fantasy Battle", "Warhammer 40,000" and "The Lord of the Rings SBG"), with roughly equal amounts of page space devoted to each. Each issue contained many special "freebies" as well as articles on the history of the magazine and the founding of Games Workshop. In December, 2004, "White Dwarf" published its 300th issue in the United Kingdom and North America. The image was also used on the character sheet for the Dwarf character in "Hero Quest". The image of the White Dwarf has graced the covers of many issues of the magazine, and is regularly featured in the interior artwork as well.
It is never stated who exactly the White Dwarf is, but it is implied that he is the spirit of Snorri Whitebeard, the last king of the Dwarfs to receive respect from an Elf. Grombrindal the White Dwarf is also a special character for the Dwarf army, whose rules are published only in certain issues of "White Dwarf" (being revamped for the most recent edition of the rules). Today, the magazine focuses exclusively on miniature wargames and thoroughly covers the models, miniatures and related paraphernalia created by Games Workshop and has carried the tagline "Games Workshop's monthly gaming supplement & Citadel miniatures catalogue" for a long period. It often includes scenarios, campaigns, hobby news, photos of recently released miniatures and tips on building terrain and constructing or converting miniatures. The magazine has always been a conduit for new rules and ideas for GW games as well as a means to showcase developments. In this respect it took over some of the aspects of the Citadel Journal, an intermittent publication that supported the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game. In the mid-late 1980s, however, there was a repositioning from being a general periodical covering all aspects and publishers within the hobby niche to a focus almost exclusively on Games Workshop's own products and publications - the changeover being relatively abrupt and obvious by issue #100. The magazine was hugely influential in the 1980s when it helped to popularise RPGs in the UK, including those American RPGs for which Games Workshop had the UK licence Fact|date=October 2007, competing directly with TSR's own UK publication, Imagine, and various other mainstream UK and imported fantasy and science-fiction gaming magazines.In addition to this a generation of writers passed through its offices and onto other RPG projects in the next decade, such as Phil Masters and Marcus L. Originally scheduled for May/June 1977 but first published one month later on a bimonthly schedule with an initial (and speculative ) print run of 4,000, White Dwarf continued the fantasy and science fiction role-playing and board-gaming theme developed in Owl and Weasel but owing to the increase in available space began to produce reviews, articles and scenarios to a greater depth than had previously been possible. Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone initially produced a newsletter called " Owl and Weasel" which ran for twenty-five issues from February 1975 before it evolved into "White Dwarf". Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, the magazine is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of " Warhammer Fantasy Battle", " Warhammer 40,000" and " The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game". "White Dwarf" is a magazine published by British games manufacturer Games Workshop.
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