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Weapons of Change

Weapons of Change June 2013 This article was originally published in & Magazine Issue 5 in May 2013. Please note that the fiction section is the author’s original version. The version published in the magazine was shortened for editorials reasons. Magic weapons are not always what they seem to be Wisl of Coomb drummed his […]

Q&A With Tim Kask

June 2013 This article was originally published in & Magazine, Issue 4 in February 2013. Recorded by Bryan Fazekas. Tim Kask, one of the people who helped create OD&D and AD&D, posts frequently to a Q&A forum on Dragonsfoot. Tim is kind enough to answer a lot of questions and has graciously permitted & Magazine to reprint […]

Undead Unlimited!

June 2013 This article was originally published in & Magazine, Issue 2 in August 2012. Written by Bryan Fazekas. Most adults have seen at least one of the plethora of zombie movies that have spawned like blowflies on a corpse since Night of the Living Dead premiered in 1968. In most of the movies the undead multiply […]

Level Draining Is Metagaming

June 2013 This article was originally published in & Magazine, Issue 2 in August 2012. Written by Bryan Fazekas. This is certainly an inflammatory title for an article. Next to alignment, level draining is possibly the most argued and divisive topic in Dungeons and Dragons. Many players express a horror of level draining that transcends character death […]

Keeping 1st Level Parties Alive

June 2013 This article was originally published in & Magazine, Issue 1 in May 2012. Written by Bryan Fazekas. A common lament among Dungeon Masters (DMs) is the difficulty of keeping low level parties alive. Some DMs seem to kill off party after party, which can dampen the fun for both the DM and the […]

Extendable Rules for Turning Undead

October 2006 This article was written in December 2005, formalizing ideas I had used many moons ago. Originally published in Footprints, published by Dragonsfoot, I’m republishing it here in HTML format. Copyright 1990, 2005-2006, 2011-2014 by Bryan Fazekas, all rights reserved. This document may not be published or reproduced in any fashion except with explicit […]