Ooh boy, that cover – schlocky 70’s fantasy art at it’s finest
What’s new
- new comic artist – Will McLean – I love his funny comics and style
Articles
- vampires – how to run them and how player’s can deal with them
- Faceless Men & Clockwork Monsters – basically a session recap by Gygax of an D&D adventure that teleported into a Metamorphosis Alpha setting – to tell you the truth, this bored me to tears and I couldn’t finish it
- Tesseracts – how to confuse the map makers with a fiendish/confusing dungeon 4D cube thingy
- Boredom and the average D&D dungeon – basically how to design a level – give it a theme, eg Ancient Egypt, etc – this was pretty good
- a breakdown of the upcoming Gen Con schedule
- a short history of Adamanite – this starts off talking about armor classes and then turns into a made-up legend/history thing – it wasn’t clear what kind of article it was trying to be
Variants
- Jousting – modifications to the Chainmail rules to include adjustments for D&D character levels
- Wizards with a difference – basically spells for magic-users that specialise – eg a Wizard of Defense which has a lot of defensive spells, many of which are boosted in some way in addition to totally new spells
- Sights and Sounds in D&D – random tables to provide atmosphere
- bunch of joke monsters – like Munchkins – not particularly funny
- Angels in D&D – there are demons, so here are some counterpart angels
Ads
- for gen con
- for the Players Handbook – “Now Available!” – also has new Wizard logo