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FILLING IN THE GAPS FOR OLD SCHOOL GAMERS Creature Feature Domiciles & Emporia One Page Dungeon Mind Reaver H'bort's Scrap Kelpies 51 63 & Armaments 68 Classes and Guilds Spring 2013 Issue 4 Guilds, Colleges, and Cabals Organizations, secret or not? Mercenary Companies of the Lakelands Good guys to have on your side! Revisiting the Assassin Class A new take on the 3rd BONUS ARTICLE oldest profession! Five Gnomish Hammers of Power Mini-Adventure: New artifacts from Lenard Lakofka! Gnoll Tower Low level bad guys! Paquin Crii Not who or what you think! Map 1 Map by M.W. Poort AKA Fingolwyn 2 &4 Issue Number 4 V1I4p0 Spring 2012 The Staff Featured Artist Publisher: This months' cover artist is Milo. Nicole Massey Milo is the nom-de-plume of a veteran role-player who started as a naive Chief Editor/Layout: adolescent with Basic D&D in 1980. After a varied real and role-played Bryan Fazekas life, he is now a secondary school teacher in the UK, married with 3 kids, Editors: a motorbike and a mortgage. His preferred game is 1st Ed AD&D and, Jeremy Dow controversially, he quite likes the UA rule additions. Andrew Hamilton Milo was the cartoonist for the Oxford Polytechnic Students Union Dan Rasaiah Magazine for two years. "Erm, that was the only other time my work has Art Director been published so getting a cover is quite a big deal for me!" Ralph Glatt He also wrote a GURP-style game called the "Bastardised Role Playing Cartographer: Game" or BRPG, which was picked up by the publisher Autokratic Press, Andreas Claren but never got a distribution deal so was never published. Logo Design: Payton Gauldin Cover Art: Milo Interior Art: Milo Maps: M.W. Poort (Fingolwyn) Contributing Authors: Lenard Lakofka Cyndi Premazon & Magazine is published four times a year by the & Publishing Group. 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Use is at the discretion of the game master and the players of individual games. &4 3 The theme of this quarter's magazine is Classes & Guilds Contents Magic Items This Issue's Features Scattered throughout & are new Guilds, Colleges, and Cabals ................................................................................9 magic items! Guilds, Colleges, and Cabals: Case Study I........................................................ 17 Power Disc................................................ 26 Guilds, Colleges, and Cabals: Case Study II ...................................................... 22 Vial of Holding ......................................... 26 Revisiting the Assassin Class.............................................................................27 Wire of Curse Destruction........................ 26 Melting Pot in the Dungeon .............................................................................. 31 String of Bonding ..................................... 26 Mercenary Companies of the Lakelands ............................................................. 37 Arrow of Fireballs..................................... 44 Handaxe of Fireballs ................................. 44 Bonus Articles Bolts of Lightning ..................................... 64 Back In The Day …............................................................................................ 45 Short Sword of Lightning ......................... 69 Five Gnomish Hammers of Power......................................................................47 Spells Featured Adventure Scattered throughout & are new Mini-Adventure: Gnoll Tower...........................................................................65 spells! Thrown Punch.......................................... 53 Regular Columns Map 1 ...................................................................................................................2 Interior Art Featured Artist.....................................................................................................3 Each printed item has the author Tread Softly..........................................................................................................5 listed, but not so the artwork. Guest Editorial: Passing the Baton ......................................................................7 Milo Creature Feature I: Mind Reaver .......................................................................50 Corsair ...................................................... 38 Friend or Foe I: Paquin Crii ............................................................................... 51 Little Knight ............................................. 41 Friend or Foe II: Three Dwarven Weaponsmiths ............................................... 54 Odd Sword................................................ 57 The Toybox: New Weapons................................................................................ 55 Odd Wand ................................................ 62 Spell Caster's Paradise I: Beefing Up Cure X Wounds Spells........................... 58 Bryan Fazekas Spell Caster's Paradise II: More Spells .............................................................. 61 Hammer.................................................... 47 Domiciles & Emporia: H'bort's Scrap & Armaments .......................................63 One Page Dungeon: Kelpies............................................................................... 68 For Further Reading........................................................................................... 70 Map 2 ................................................................................................................. 71 4 &4 Tread Softly by Nicole Massey Thoughts from the publisher Welcome back to all returning readers, and least semi-professional in presentation, and we do welcome to our new readers. I hope you find some that because we want to make digesting what we interesting things in this issue that will entertain, publish as easy as possible for our readers. Nothing enlighten, and give you things to think about. yanks me out of an article or narrative faster than a misspelled word. Part of this is a product of my Our fourth issue. That equates to a year of screen reader, as it sometimes doesn't know how to production. I could fill an issue with the things I've pronounce a particular misspelling, but when learned in that time, and still have a lot more left someone doesn't try to check their writing for over. Y'all have been great, for the most part, letting errors, a far more common occurrence in these us know what you think of our work and what modern days of self-publishing to the web and e- you'd like to see, and I can't say enough about all of readers, there's nothing my screen reader can do our freelancers who are contributing things to the about it, and as an editor I can't direct it to ignore magazine for everyone else to enjoy. Hopefully such things and say them correctly, as you can you've also noticed that we spend time editing, probably imagine. laying out the magazine, and doing several proofreading passes to make sure that everything Because this magazine isn't just a vanity project, it's looks its best. Our goal has always been to be at there for y'all. And with that said, I can't say enough about how wonderful our staff is in making this all happen. Creativity and the ability to turn that creativity into something real is rare, and we have Fanzine and Magazine Publishers and several folks who do that on a regular basis, and in Collectors! a timely fashion, which allows us to get things out & is compiling an index of articles relating to when we say we're going to. our hobby published in professional, semi- professional, and fan created magazines, "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." and we would love to have your assistance in This is one of Murphy's Military Laws, and it fits this process. this issue. Our original idea was to deal with multi- Have you built an index of your favorite classed characters as the theme of the issue. I've magazine, or are you considering it? been unable to locate a single article on the topic, so Send us your indices of articles in a besides the information in the core rulebooks and DragonDex oriented format and we will add other TSR publications, there hasn't been much said them to our growing index for D&D articles about it. Unfortunately, reality then set in, and we and other related material. realized that it'd be very difficult to fill an issue on The & staff is working on White Dwarf and this topic. We also received some good articles on Footprints – we welcome your help in things related to character classes but not building a resource for fellow gamers. specifically multi-classed characters, so we decided Make sure you include your name and email to expand the topic. It's a huge topic, so chances are address so we can ensure you get credit for good that we'll do other issues on the same theme in your work! See our Index page for more