Olik's Archive - Other Writings

A Magic Rationale			Source: Marc Carlson
In this highly informative and thorough essay on magic, Marc Carlson here attempts to "codify the rationale and rationalizations behind Magic and related things," providing a complete "examination of how the universe could work if magic worked the way it's supposed to, based on the teachings of occultists throughout history." It is a very interesting piece, touching subjects such as the Unified Field Theory, Metapsychic Functions, and the role of the Planes of Existence.
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A Treatise on Priests			Source: Thomas Weigel
A small set of thought about priests and how they can be improved, with respect to both playability and their "role" in the fantasy society.
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Adventure Sketches			Source: Jason Seeley
Nine adventure ideas; some are quite elaborate and well-written, but a few are very short.
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Alignment			Source: Woodelf
The concept of alignment is enhanced and made much more interesting with this small accessory. Alignment is subdivided into three parts, priorities, morals, and beliefs, which help to clarify the sometimes difficult and obscure original rules. This piece in ideal when fleshing out character personalities.
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Alternate Magic System Supplement			Source: Robert Winke
Originally a supplement to the Spellweaving System, these rules can also be used with the standard AD&D rules. They will "bog down spell use a little", as the author say, but gives magic a little "extra touch".
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Alternate Spellcasting Rules and Miscast Table			Source: Glenn E. Elliott
The rules for memorizing spells are changed to be a bit more liberal, but are compensated with an extensive backfire system. Also included are several detailed miscast tables, including some really weird and funny ones.
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Alternative Spell Uses			Source: Unknown
A few, very imaginative descriptions of how one can use ordinary spells to great effects. Quite funny.
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Applied Magical System Rationale			Source: Marc Carlson
Based on the earlier work A Magic Rationale (see above), this piece extends the former work, giving thorough details on game use; many topics, ranging from Will Points, spellcasters and training, magical items, spell components, a comprehensive list of the magical properties of many different materials, to a nice overview of magic types and performers of magic in both real-world and fantasy religions and cultures. Greatly recommended.
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Bag O' Wondrous Items			Source: Unknown
A weird magical item, with a hundred funny random effects.
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Black Tome of Pilpin			Source: Allan Longley and Ted Dreibelbis
A collection of twenty-eight spells made by the two evil characters Pilpin the Black, and Arch-Mage, and Noska Trades, a Necromancer, both of great power. The spells are richly detailed, and the collection itself is rather unique since there aren't that many spells published that are evil or made for and by evil characters.
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Black Lizardmen -- A Way of Life and As a PC			Source: Irving Galvez
Two nice documents detailing black lizardmen (a new race). One provides details about black lizardman life, the other one giving rules on how to play them as PCs.
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Blackmoor -- Another Point of View v1.1			Source: Irving Galvez
The author here speculates a bit about the mysteries of the ancient land of Blackmoor from the Old D&D game, and how things are here today.
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Blackthorn's Orizon			Source: Travis Eagles
A mysterious book created by the elven mage Blackthorn, this tome contains thirty-five unique spells. Although the background story of this book is set in the Forgotten Realms, but the spells are playable in any compaign world.
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Cendril's Treasure Trove			Source: Akos Hartai (Cendril)
Over a dozen new magical items. Simple, but yet concise descriptions.
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Character Sheet v1.0			Source: Ole A. Ringdal (Olik)
This character sheet is being used in our own campaign. No frills, plain text-and-tables, this character sheet has room for all necessary information without running into five or six pages. Also incorporates some information from the "Player's Option: Skills and Powers" book.
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Character Training System			Source: Allan Longley
A simplification of the character training rules in AD&D 2nd edition, based on rules from the 1st edition DMG. Easier to play with than the commercially published rules, but still realistic.
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Combining Story Lines and Character Freedom			Source: Unknown
Detailing the three campaign types (railroad, open ended, and matrix), these notes explain these terms and provide information about how they work for the creative DM.
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Companion			Source: Ron Stanions
A story of a tribesman who meets a dragon. An interesting encounter that will change their fates forever...
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Critical Hits and Misses Tables			Source: Lindsey Lambert (Knight)
Two simple tables providing a simple framework for realistic critical hits and misses rules.
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DAGE -- Dark Ages Campaign World			Source: Eric Dobbs
A richly detailed and well-written campaign world. Includes a map.
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Divine Magic			Source: Greg Howley
If you feel that priests only are religious wizards that get their spells from a god instead of from a book, then these rules may help. Not revolutionary, though, but this system introduces a new concept of when and how priests get their spells, and if they get them.
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Dwarven Magical Items			Source: The Shadowdancer and Nicholas Wilson
These two new, exciting magical items were apparently designed specifically with dwarves in mind.
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Elf's Gamebook			Source: Elf Sternberg
This little oddity could very well give some humorous as well as serious additions to a stalled campaign. Some new monsters, and quite a few weird items.
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Empowered Familiars			Source: Satan's Dentist
Familiars in the AD&D game originally are quite non-appealing. This new spell, with detailed gaming notes, changes that completely.
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Evasion vs. Armor			Source: Greg Howley
More realistic rules for dealing with armor. This work extends the rules somewhat, but is highly adaptable into the current system. A good extension to the core rules.
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Evermore's Black Spells			Source: Jeff Conry
A compilation of forty spells, all evil and destructive in nature. Made by Evermore, a black-hearted, evil mage.
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Experience Awards System v1.0			Source: Ole A. Ringdal (Olik)
I found the system for handing out individual experience awards in the PHB full of shortcomings, so I decided to write my own. This system hands out rewards taking into account the characters' levels, so that the awards are equally valuable to low and high level characters. Does not skew the party by giving disproportionally high awards to some characters than others.
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Familiars			Source: Woodelf
Woodelf thinks about how to handle familiars in a campaign, even familiars for priests.
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Familiars, Extended Table Version			Source: Jens-Arthur Leirbakk
Greatly improving the playability of the Find Familiar spell, this table has 134 creatures taken from the Monstrous Manual.
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Fitness Point System			Source: Erik van Vliet (Plasto Quinon)
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Forgotten Realms Compendium 2			Source: MPG-Net
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Fumbles by Weapon Types			Source: Nosferatu
A simple, seemingly half-hearted effort concering weapon fumbles. Yet, it's the only fumbles-table I've seen that deals with specific weapon types and still playable.
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Generic Traps			Source: Unknown
Eleven new traps to trouble your characters. Diagrams accompany some of them. Imaginative and surely fun to play.
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Ghosts			Source: Marc Carlson
Again Marc Carlson writes an comprehensive document, this time detailing ghosts. Many aspects of the "life" of the various types of ghosts are discussed, and there is also detailed statistics for each type. Everything you want to know about these ghastly creatures are detailed here.
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Glossary of Castle Terms			Source: Unknown
Confused by architectural concepts in fantasy literature? Well, here's a comprehensive guide to medieval architecture, castles in special, with each term explained. Can't remember where I found it, though.
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Guidelines for World Design			Source: Rich Staats (and Juha juuso Vesanto)
A detailed and well-organized work describing how to make the most of world design. Good procedures helping you to design realistic worlds -- This is a must for the creative DM.
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Gygaxian Saga			Source: THAC0
A verse-like ditty telling the story of Gary Gygax, his creation we all love, AD&D, and the evolution of TSR. Spiteful.
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Handling Spells			Source: Thomas Weigel
With this short, but richly detailed work, spells become much more realistic and puts the idea of spellcasting in general in a new light. Nice.
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Hovering on Death's Door Rules			Source: Unknown
Really detailed rules for character death (and being on the verge of death), as well as how to handle characters "returned from the dead". Very good
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How Much Does a Coin Weigh?			Source: Unknown
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How to Have a Great AD&D Campaign			Source: Jason Kuznicki
62 rules and recommendations on how to make your campaign work better.
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Immortals vs. Liches			Source: Matthew Shelton (Xeno)
A short little discussion about Immortals in the sense of the Highlander movies, and their adaption to the AD&D game.
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Jim's Weather Generator			Source: Jim Heath
A tiny work that nevertheless seems quite sufficient to handle enough weather for any adventure or campaign. Simple, but adequate, unless detailed weather is essential to the campaign.
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Katrine's Spells			Source: Thomas Weigel
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Ken Jenks' AD&D1 House Rules			Source: Ken Jenk
A well-sized collection of house rules dealing with anything from regular game mechanics to specific spells and classes.
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Life Sucks and Then You Die			Source: Matthew Shelton (Xeno)
Tired of having those super-human characters for which adventures like "save-the-world-before-sundown" are routine? Then try these excellent rules that effectively balance character creation and evolution to cope with "regular" adventures and campaigns.
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Magical Research			Source: Erik van Vliet (Plasto Quinon)
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Magician			Source: Matthew Shelton (Xeno)
A new character class, the Magician is a combination of the wizard and the rogue. This AD&D adaption of the magician of history details the master of sleight-of-hand and illusions, and is thoroughly balanced to avoid making this a powerful class. An interesting character to play, this little piece makes an interesting addition to the existing range of available classes.
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Magnificent Monstrous Database 3rd Edition			Source: Roger D. Mast
An extensive compilation of monster statistics from all the major TSR products, both old and new, this TSR-approved work is a valuable reference for DMs. Professionally designed, this database no serious DM should be without. This update adds over 500 new monsters, bringing the total up to more than 1800 entries. I guess that should be enough, even for the most demanding DM...
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Making Magical Items, A Sensible Approach			Source: Bryan J. Maloney
Basically two families of spells, these new rules completely override the standard rules for creating magical items, which obviously (in the author's mind) had loads of shortcomings.
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Making Proficiencies Make Sense			Source: Unknown
A complete revamping of the standard proficiency rules.
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Mana Point Magic System v2.02			Source: Gaetan Viau
A comprehensive spell casting system that deals with the lack of flexibility and the level restrictions in the original AD&D game. Very comprehensive, richly detailed, and highly playable. A real gem.
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The Mindwarrior v1.0			Source: Shadow Master
A new fighter character class, on the verge of psionics, for you not wanting to go all the way with psionics rules. Description of the class, abilities, and other information, but a little thin in my opinion. But hey, it's only the first version!
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Miracles in a Campaign			Source: Thomas Weigel
Some ideas to enhance priests in a campaign, how to make them a bit more distinct from each other, and also to give the Game Master a bit more control over the campaign world.
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My Castle Design			Source: Unknown
An interesting angle on the construction of your own castle, this work tells the story as it really happened in someone's campaign. It covers both construction in general, and how the castle's defenders would best react to special forms of attack (i.e. magic). I can't remember where I found it, though, or who really made this.
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My Diatribes on Roleplaying and the Earning of Experience			Source: Woodelf
Woodelf again enlightens the gaming world with his thinking, this time on how experience should be porperly handled.
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Non-Weapon Proficiencies			Source: Unknown and Ole A. Ringdal (Olik)
About 200 new non-weapon proficiencies I found somewhere on the net. I cleaned it up and added a table with the proficiencies sorted by groups.
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New and Improved Famous Last Words List			Source: Unknown
A few hundred very humorous last words. Apparently some were taken from real campaigns.
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O, Wondrous Wand			Source: Stephen P. King
One hundred new effects for the well-known Wand of Wonder. Quite imaginative and funny, and clearly playable (though that could prove very interesting).
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Peako's Book of Cantrips			Source: Peako Macduff
A comprehensive and richly detailed work, containing loads of cantrips for every imaginative use.
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Percentile System for Weapon Quality			Source: The Guide Creator
Tired of (from a DM's perspective) every weapon being equal in quality and design, never getting damaged or worn? This solves it.
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Perception			Source: Matthew Shelton (Xeno)
A new ability score, Perception is mainly composed of vision and hearing, but is to a lesser extent a synthesis of all the senses. Thoroughly done, the Perception rules are invaluable when you as a DM will want to resort to dice-rolling and a set of specific rules, instead of relying on intuition, when deciding if a character notices something or not. Whenever there's a need for rules dealing with vision, hearing, and the other senses in general, these rules are an essential addition.
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Plateau AD&D (PAD&D)			Source: Matthew Shelton (Xeno)
Feeling the level-system of the AD&D game is a bit artificial? Well, here's the solution. A well-developed set of rules doing away with the Levelling of standard AD&D player characters. This system does involve a bit more dice-rolling, but ensures a more balanced and perhaps more realistic way of defining PC characteristics, based on the more sensible idea that not every characteristic is enhanced whenever a standard AD&D PC advances in level. The player only improves those attributes for which s/he has used a lot, or trained.
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The Puritan			Source: Matthew Shelton (Xeno)
A new character class, the Puritan might be thought of as the AD&D equivalent of the Amish people. The Puritan completely abandons all use of magic, and they devote themselves to a naturalistic lifestyle. This character class may not seem "typical" to an RPG campaign, but nevertheless it certainly would be both challenging and interesting to try to play such a character. Very thoroughly done.
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Priest Spells Volume 1			Source: Brjánn Jónasson
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Rael's Arrow Spells			Source: Brjánn Jónasson
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Ravenloft Monsters			Source: Unknown
Four new monsters for the Ravenloft campaign setting, each richly detailed and ready for use.
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Religion in the Forgotten Realms			Source: Are Th. Samsonsen
A beautifully designed overview of all the deities of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, each description providing all the information you need about specialty priests of the gods in question.
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Ritual Magic			Source: Andreas Hartmann (Aelin)
An original addition to any existing magic system, Ritual Magic allows greater flexibility in both casting and effects of regular spells. Really spurs creativity..
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The Sick Kids			Source: Roger M. Wilcox
A very long and incredibly weird and humorous story about the AD&D game. Hilarious!
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Some Cursed Magical Items			Source: Unknown
Three new magical items with a special touch.
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Some Non-Weapon Proficiencies			Source: The Guide Creator
Over thirty new non-weapon proficiencies, many quite original.
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Some Notes on DM-ing Adventures v1.0			Source: Jørn Losnegård and Ole A. Ringdal (Olik)
A concoction from our own gaming group, these notes detail some of the thoughts one of our DMs has on the various aspects of administering adventures. Primarily intended as an introductory text to beginning DMs, discussing how to avoid the many traps a fresh DM may fall into during his/her first adventures, but also has a lot of tips and tricks for the seasoned DM as well. Originally written by Jørn Losnegård, with translation from Norwegian and some additions by me (Olik). Please note that this is the very first version, and that there is no organization whatsoever.
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Spell Memorizing Process, 2nd Edition			Source: Lei Wang
A few short (but good) notes on how spells should be memorized, instead of using the standard rules (which are a bit unrealistic.
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Spell Point System			Source: Mark Morgan
A new spell point system, this one is quite good, but not overly complicated.
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Spell Research			Source: Woodelf
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Spell Weaving v1.5			Source: Robert Winkel
Stressing flexibility and individuality amongst spellcasters, this well-written spell system has been much playtested, and is sort of a synthesis of other, earlier systems from authors like Jim Gitzlaff, Jim Sisolak, and Matthew Stanton. This set of rules is able to mimic and coexist with other systems, while maintaining game balance. Low level magic is made more appealing, and the power curve of level advancement is more balanced.
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Spells			Source: Runar Magnusson (Doc)
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Spells			Source: Gabriel Cain
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Spells			Source: Russel Martin
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Spells of Alpha the Mage			Source: Jason Nelson
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Survival Check System			Source: Greg Howley
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Swordhawk's Character Sheet			Source: Ådne Brunborg (Swordhawk)
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Swordhawk's Spellsheet			Source: Ådne Brunborg (Swordhawk)
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The Swordhawk Rules 1st Edition			Source: Ådne Brunborg (Swordhawk)
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The Swordhawk Rules 2nd Edition			Source: Ådne Brunborg (Swordhawk)
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The Swordhawk Rules Addition I			Source: Ådne Brunborg (Swordhawk)
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The Swordhawk Rules Addition II			Source: Ådne Brunborg (Swordhawk)
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Thoughts on Alignments			Source: Steven Wright
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The Tome of Flames			Source: Michael Morris
A new magical book, containing lots of spells, including six new ones.
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Ultimate Bag O' Beans			Source: Reid Bluebaugh & Others
The ultimate random treasure! Lots of effects, some of them really weird. Adds some fun to an otherwise serious (and/or boring) campaign.
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Vampires			Source: Marc Carlson
An incredibly comprehensive work on the (in)famous vampires, this work is highly detailed, well-written, and discusses numerous aspects of the "life" of these creatures. Written in a semi-scientific style, this work is pure reading enjoyment. Also has notes on vampires from real-world legends and fairy tales. As ever, Marc Carlson here delivers a complete, very satisfying work. Highly recommended.
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White Hand			Source: Unknown
Another story, this one in the form of an adventurer's diary.
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Wild Surge Table 2			Source: Unknown
A hundred new effects for wild surges.
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Wild Surge Table 3			Source: Unknown
Yet another hundred new effects for wild surges.
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Wizard Spells Volume 1			Source: Brjánn Jónasson
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Wizard Spells Volume 2			Source: Brjánn Jónasson
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Xeno's Character Sheet			Source: Matthew Shelton (Xeno)
A very extensive character sheet, that has space enough for just about anything you might want to keep of information about your character. Separate pages for specific classes. 12 pages; both versions included.
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Xeno's Magical Items List Volume One			Source: Matthew Shelton (Xeno)
A nice collection of magical items, each with extensive descriptions. Very thorough.
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Zagyg's Deck of Not So Many Things			Source: Sam and Joe Calleran (Dead Ghost)
A really funny and weird deck of cards. You don't want to play with this one...
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