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573. Various Authors - Dragon #126 (October 1987)
573. Various Authors – Dragon #126 (October 1987)
So we come to the month of October 1987, and with it we reach one of the most iconic of Dragon magazine covers, this time by Daniel Horne and it is a fitting cover for a special issue on the undead…
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May 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
573. Various Authors - Dragon #126 (October 1987)
572.1 Short stories in Gary Gygax - Night Arrant (1987)
572.1 Short stories in Gary Gygax – Night Arrant (1987)
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May 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
572.1 Short stories in Gary Gygax - Night Arrant (1987)
572. Gary Gygax - Night Arrant (1987)
572. Gary Gygax – Night Arrant (1987)
Sorry I’ve been taking so long in updating this project, but I did get a bit stuck reading through Night Arrant, something which might happen as I hit some duller or harder going novel as we …
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May 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
572. Gary Gygax - Night Arrant (1987)
571.1. Articles in Polyhedron #37 (September 1987)
571.1. Articles in Polyhedron #37 (September 1987)
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April 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
571.1. Articles in Polyhedron #37 (September 1987)
571. Various Authors - Polyhedron #37 (September 1987)
571. Various Authors – Polyhedron #37 (September 1987)
As usual, every two months, we get the RPGA magazine, Polyhedron, aimed at the competitive side of TTRPGs, but with some good extra articles on rules and sundry game optimizations. This issue is, u…
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April 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
571. Various Authors - Polyhedron #37 (September 1987)
570.1. Stephen Fabian and Bruce Heard - Sample Illustrated pages in GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987)
570.1. Stephen Fabian and Bruce Heard – Sample Illustrated pages in GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987)
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April 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
570.1. Stephen Fabian and Bruce Heard - Sample Illustrated pages in GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987)
570. Bruce Heard - GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987)
570. Bruce Heard – GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987)
Further fleshing out the world of Mystara (before it even had that name) the third Gazetteer in the series brings us the magocracy of Glantri. A collection of principalities ruled by aristocra…
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April 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
570. Bruce Heard - GAZ 3: The Principalities of Glantri (1987)
569.1. Various Artists- Maps and Illustrations from C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987)
569.1. Various Artists- Maps and Illustrations from C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987)
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April 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
569.1. Various Artists- Maps and Illustrations from C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987)
569. Various Authors - C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987)
569. Various Authors – C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987)
Looking for all intents and purposes like an adventure module, C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook is actually a bit more than that. Firstly it has not one, but two adventures, written by Dan…
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April 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
569. Various Authors - C6: The Official RPGA Tournament Handbook (1987)
568.1. Various Authors - Adventures in Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987)
568.1. Various Authors – Adventures in Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987)
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April 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
568.1. Various Authors - Adventures in Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987)
568. Various Authors - Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987)
568. Various Authors – Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987)
We reach the second year of Dungeon Magazine and this time we get some more variety than usual in terms of adventures that come packaged in the issue. In the first year the magazine was heavily bia…
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April 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
568. Various Authors - Dungeon #7 (September/October 1987)
567.1. Various Authors - Sample pages from Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987)
567.1. Various Authors – Sample pages from Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987)
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April 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
567.1. Various Authors - Sample pages from Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987)
567. Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb et al. - Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987)
567. Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb et al. – Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987)
A really important item that somehow slipped through the cracks on my list, the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set is probably the most important campaign setting since Gary Gygax’s 1980’s W…
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April 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
567. Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb et al. - Forgotten Realms Campaign Set (1987)
566.1. Stephen Sullivan - Maps for N5: Under Ilefarn (1987)
566.1. Stephen Sullivan – Maps for N5: Under Ilefarn (1987)
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April 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
566.1. Stephen Sullivan - Maps for N5: Under Ilefarn (1987)
565.1. George Barr - Illustrations for Dragonlance Adventures (1987)
565.1. George Barr – Illustrations for Dragonlance Adventures (1987)
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March 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
565.1. George Barr - Illustrations for Dragonlance Adventures (1987)
565. Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis - Dragonlance Adventures (1987)
565. Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis – Dragonlance Adventures (1987)
As the Dragonlance modules came out (DL1-12 came out between 1984-86, four more will come out in the future), each of them would contain some information about the world of Krynn where players woul…
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March 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
565. Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis - Dragonlance Adventures (1987)
