FILLING IN THE GAPS FOR OLD SCHOOL GAMERS Creature Feature Tactical Magic Mini-Adventure Ecology of the Vancian Juju Zombie 37 Dragon Turtle 69 Magic 84 Bandits Spells and Summer 2014 Issue 9 Spell Casters Spontaneous Spell Casting BONUS ARTICLE a twist on Vancian Stone Spirals magic magic with a twist Greater Fae this is not Tinker Bell Three Shops good places to buy Map 1: Desert Ziggurat 1 Map by Fingolwyn the basin on Level 1 is a secret door that slides/shifts/lifts to reveal two shafts and ladders that descend to Levels 2 and 3 2 & 9 Issue Number 9 V3I1 Summer 2014 & Magazine is published four times a year by the & The Staff Publishing Group. It is available for download at Publisher: Nicole Massey http://and-mag.com/. Chief Editor/Layout: Bryan Fazekas The rights to all material published herein belongs to the author(s) or artist(s) of the said work. 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Please contact our webmaster regarding mutual linking. & 9 3 The theme of this quarter's magazine is Spells and Spell Casters Contents This Issue's Features Spontaneous Spell Casting, by Bryan Fazekas............................................................................................................................. 7 Introduction to the AD&D Spell System, by Lenard Lakofka ................................................................................................. 10 The Perils of Psionic Blast, by Ian Slater..................................................................................................................................... 16 Greater Faeries, by Andrew Hamilton........................................................................................................................................ 22 An Alternative Spell Memorization System, by Tim Moore.................................................................................................... 29 Bonus Articles Interview with Ernie Gygax, by Andrew Hamilton ................................................................................................................. 32 Regular Columns Map 1: Desert Ziggurat 1, by Fingolwyn...................................................................................................................................... 2 Featured Artist ................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 & Musings, by Bryan Fazekas ........................................................................................................................................................ 6 Creature Feature I: Stat the Harpoonapus!................................................................................................................................. 34 Creature Feature II: Ecology of the Dragon Turtle, by Dan Rasaiah ...................................................................................... 37 Creature Feature III: Ecology of the Oculus Despot, by Bryan Fazekas................................................................................. 40 Creature Feature IV: Wesley's Monsters, by C. Wesley Clough.............................................................................................. 45 Friend or Foe: Greater Fae, by Andrew Hamilton .................................................................................................................... 48 The Toybox I: New Weapons VI – Rome and Other Random Weapons., by Nicole Massey ............................................ 51 The Toybox II: Stone Spirals, by Lenard Lakofka...................................................................................................................... 53 Spell Caster's Paradise I: Expanding the Globes of Invulnerability, by Bryan Fazekas....................................................... 55 Spellcaster's Paradise II: The Spells of Errgo the Immobile, by Alex Phillips ....................................................................... 58 Spellcaster's Paradise III: Cleric Spells, by Ian Slater................................................................................................................ 64 Tactical Magic: Vancian Magic and Scroll Spells, by Ian Slater............................................................................................... 69 BrewMaster: Much Ado About Homebrew, by Tim Connolly ............................................................................................... 75 Domiciles & Emporia I: Some Businesses in Gamington, by Mark Clover ........................................................................... 77 Domiciles & Emporia II: Three Shops, by Jeff Bowes ............................................................................................................... 80 One Page Dungeon: Juju Zombie Bandits, by Andrew Hamilton .......................................................................................... 84 Hex Crawls: Western Lakelands, by Andrew Hamilton.......................................................................................................... 86 The Gaming Gourmet, by Doug Rector...................................................................................................................................... 91 For Further Reading, by Ron Redmond ..................................................................................................................................... 92 & Magazine on the Net ................................................................................................................................................................. 93 Tread Softly, by Nicole Massey.................................................................................................................................................... 94 Map 2: Desert Ziggurat 2, by Fingolwyn.................................................................................................................................... 95 4 & 9 Featured Artist Interior Art Tyler Chapman This month's cover artist is Michael Raston, a guy from Cleric......................................................................................70 Australia. He likes drawing weird things in ink and playing old versions of D&D. He runs and plays games C. Wesley Clough online through G+ hangouts. You can add him on G+ at Magrite...................................................................................46 https://plus.google.com/u/0/113908760463553372333/post Otyoll .....................................................................................47 s. He has a blog at John Fredericks http://lizardmandiaries.blogspot.com.au/ and you can see Forum of the Seven.................................................................31 his other art work at his Deviant Art gallery Harpoonapus..........................................................................34 http://mraston.deviantart.com/gallery/ Mordans Hill..........................................................................40 Green Monster .......................................................................94 Caleb Horowitz Dragon Turtle ........................................................................39 Dustywind .............................................................................48 Sword .....................................................................................49 Rinishka .................................................................................50