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Okay, I do not own a single issue of the magazine, i know they have some interesting content, what I want to know si how useful they are as a whole, so, comes the three questions:

What is the magazine and what is in it?

- Is it meant to present only rules? Does it have articles? Of What kind? This often has to do with the whole line, but i do like to know what to expect of each issue.

Why get the crusader magazine?

- What makes it a good addition to our library? The rules? The articles? The drawings?

How does the crusader fit in the whole?

- It adds and expands upon the core books, it presents new approaches to the system and so on.

I am making this thread because somehow the information I found on the magazine seems a bit lacking. Thanks a lot for anyone willing to help fill those out, hopefully this thread will serve as a good guide for others seeking info on it as well.
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Nifelhein wrote:
What is the magazine and what is in it?

- Is it meant to present only rules? Does it have articles? Of What kind? This often has to do with the whole line, but i do like to know what to expect of each issue.

Having just read all of Issue 5 about a dozen times over while I was laying it out for print, I feel eminently qualified to answer this question and I shall do so by way of listing the contents for you:

1 - How It All Happened (The latest installment of Gary Gygax's autobiographical reminiscences of, well, how it all happened.)

2 - Alea Iacta Est: Going Tarzan (Steve's regular editorial, this time focusing on the challenge of having your character stripped naked and dropped in the middle of the jungle to be raised by apes.) (Okay, that's mostly a lie.) (Sort of.)

3 - Hammer & Anvil: Mysterious Places (Casey Canfield's regular column, this time focusing on some funky real world places as inspiration for RPG settings.)

4 - "The Forge King's Malice" (A short story by Stephen Chenault.)

5 - Fables of Lejend (A new column by Jon Creffield, presenting "Lejendary Adventure game people, places, and things" on this particular occasion, a nasty little NAC named Cirvicar, whom I would not want to meet in a dark alley.)

6 - One Night Stands (A new column by Bill Webb, presenting short C&C adventures three on this particular occasion: The Barrow Mounds, The Crystal Cave, and The Crypt.)

7 - "Plumes Upon the Blue" (The latest installment of the ongoing "Aihrdian Chronicles," fiction by Stephen Chenault, with accompanying C&C setting notes.)

8 - Fellowship of Foragers (A comic strip by Finarvyn.)

9 - Auld Wyrmish: Multiclasses as Classes, Part 2 (Mike Stewart's regular column, this time concluding his overview of some combined character classes that can replace the usual clunky multiclassing.)

10 - The Angry Gamer: The Popcorn Reigns (Todd Gray's regular humor column in which he rants about things that annoy him, this time focusing on movies or rather, moviegoers.)

And of course there's also a variety of cool art throughout.

That's rather a nice assortment of stuff for one little ol' magazine, wouldn't you agree?

Plus, it can be rolled up and used to swat emo LARP freaks.

Nifelhein wrote:
Why get the crusader magazine?

- What makes it a good addition to our library? The rules? The articles? The drawings?

All of the above, I'd venture to say.

3rd eye,

Thanks a lot for posting that, I must say I like that table of contents and the kind of information contained in it, since you were nice enough to post about the upcoming one I must say I will then be ordering all of them on pdf once this one is out too (though I might have to wait a little for my credit card to be available for this again).

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Excellent! I think you'll like it. (Bill Webb's One Night Stands adventures are probably worth the price of admission all by themselves.)

Of course, you can't use the PDF version to swat those emo LARP freaks but not surprisingly, it can still make 'em cry.

Stop it! STOP it!! You're getting me all juiced up to play C&C again....and I *NEED* a break from CKing! Damn you 3rd Eye, damn you to hell.

Ink
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Oh, then you definitely don't want to hear about that Hammer & Anvil article, and those Mysterious Places that would make such cool focus points for adventures

You probably don't want to hear about those cool One Night Stands adventures, either all ready and waiting there for you, two of them with maps, even!

No, those are things that might tempt you to Castle-Keep so I won't mention them.

3rd Eye wrote:
Oh, then you definitely don't want to hear about that Hammer & Anvil article, and those Mysterious Places that would make such cool focus points for adventures

You probably don't want to hear about those cool One Night Stands adventures, either all ready and waiting there for you, two of them with maps, even!

No, those are things that might tempt you to Castle-Keep so I won't mention them.

Like shooting fish in a barrel!
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"I shun him."

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-- E. Gary Gygax

Ok, this can't possibly be printed and shipped soon enough.

(I'm glad you liked Hammer and Anvil. Next issue will contain some crunch.)

Oh, and I'm a LARP freak, but definitely not emo and *definitely* not vampire. Please don't swat me.
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3rd Eye wrote:
You probably don't want to hear about those cool One Night Stands adventures, either all ready and waiting there for you, two of them with maps, even!

Ya. Ive had a few of those, and you really dont want to hear about them..

Wait.. we're talking about something else arent we?
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Nifelhein wrote:
I am making this thread because somehow the information I found on the magazine seems a bit lacking. Thanks a lot for anyone willing to help fill those out, hopefully this thread will serve as a good guide for others seeking info on it as well.

Hi Nifelheim. Have you had a chance to view the previews of the magazine on the TLG main site. Download section, I think.

I've enjoyed all the issues and feel they are a good value. There is a good mix of articles, art and stories and for me, each issue seems to get better.

Also, you can purchase the mag in PDF on RPGNow, if you want to have a look see, so you can determine if you like them.

[Dang, I'm Jonesin' for issue 5!]

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Hey Rhuvein!

I am actually going to get them in .pdf, though I prefer print I hard one issue is out of print already and I want to get them all in one place. I am downloading the previews right now, I cant believe i skipped those.
Thanks for the tip!
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects." - Attributed to Herman Melville.

3rd Eye wrote:
Plus, it can be rolled up and used to swat emo LARP freaks.

heh. I needed a smile today. thank you.