Come with me, if you will, to a magical, improbable land. A land where ideas and craft outweigh brand recognition and marketing potential, where films are the visions of writers and directors rather than of moneyed committees, and where the word ‘remake’ is most commonly associated with smoothing the bedsheets after a midday nap. It’s a place perhaps more fantastic than worlds of warring orcs and elves, since at least the orcs and elves are behaving according to their nature….
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224 pages, $9.95 On Sale March 31, 2009 Edited by John O’Neill Published by New Epoch Press Website Editor: Dave Munger Cover by Malcolm McClinton Spot Art by Bernie Mireault Interior Art by Kent Burles, Storn Cook, Mark Evans, Leif Jones, John Kaufmann, Malcolm McClinton, Bernie Mireault, Jim Pavelec, and Michael Vilardi Buy this issue — only $9.95 plus postage and handling! FICTION “The Beautiful Corridor” By Jonathan L. Howard Kyth had penetrated every chamber of the ancient and deadly tomb……
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I’m an unrepentant role-playing gamer; an addict, if you must know. My gateway drug was the original Dungeons & Dragons – the boxed set with the pseudo-Smaug red dragon on the cover. My grade school chums and I played at every opportunity, from quick encounters at recess to marathon weekends of goblin-slaughtering and lair-looting. OD&D was just the beginning. From there, I branched out into other games: AD&D, Traveller, The Fantasy Trip, Gamma World, Star Frontiers, Call of Cthulhu ….
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