![]() ![]() ![]() I was about 12 or 13 and had an occasional paper round at the local paper shop (I was sort of a Stunt Paper Boy covering illness or holidays). This was the first White Dwarf magazine I ever bought. 38) – the home-grown products are starting to be obvious. Inhuman Gods – what’s that, monsters with their own culture? Hand me my great big sword of slicy dicey. If you really want a world influenced by magic, it’s not going to be anything like this recognisable.Ĭareers in Traveller – I seem to remember reverse-engineering this for the VIC-20. The world has castles in it because Mediaevalworld™ has castles in it. Really more a tactical wargame than an RPG.Ĭritical Mass – I also bought Nifft the Lean on the basis of this review, and enjoyed it, but it’s been a while.Ĭastles in the Air – oh, yeah, the Great Dungeon Debate. The Morrow Project: I played in a very variant campaign of this for a while. ![]() Open Box – whatever happened to SoloQuest? Fighting Fantasy: better than the alternative. These days I’d expect to have a contest of skills with bonuses for narrated detail. To Catch a Thief – interesting, very much in the “learn the system to do well” style of RPGing. And of course the obligatory nuclear weapons. This was an issue I missed out on for a long time – I was buying up older issues when I found them, but 42 was hard to obtain for some reason.Ĭthulhu Now – great stuff, and if the details of programming languages were perhaps a bit unnecessary it certainly wasn’t the only game to include them. Those Blanche sun and moon faces are one of the signature images of early-80s Games Workshop for me. If you look at the comments under the link to Issue 33 you’ll find a link to a copy – shhhh! I’d be really interested in how many of products and services that you used from the ads in this issue too. Part 1 of Irillian, ‘To catch a Thief’ one of the best ever Traveller articles (to my mind), Cthulhu Now! and a great Griselda story to boot. As Daily Dwarf once pointed out, there’s about three scenarios at once playing out in that city. We needed something to cheer us up.įortunately this was the hey day of the hey day of White Dwarf and the covers don’t get much better than this John Blanche classic. In this month a toilet caught fire on Air Canada’s DC-9 killing 23 people, Mrs Thatch was elected with a landslide and Octopussy was released. By some strange quirk of fate, this issue precedes the issue that was selected last week! Don’t blame me, blame the cursed dice of Hattifattener who rolled it on their d100 over on our Discord channel (if you’d like to join, then please let me know). ![]()
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