Issue 3 - May 2011

Editorial
Dancing With Myself by ckutalik

Products & Reviews

• Games

  Weird West RPG by Stuart Robertson

• Game Products
  Look Back: Cities of Mystery - Review by Thomas Denmark

  

• Books
  Blood of Requiem by Daniel Arenson - Review by Blodeudd

  

Game Content

• Adventures
  Tower of Zordaz Sketch and Level 1 by the Y-Team

  

• Monsters
  Redoing the Fiend Folio by Zak S.
  Continuing Project of re-imagined monster images and concepts.
  Wasp Dragon by Ben Overmyer

• Spells

  Control Weapon
  Maximization
  by Wymarc

• Magic-Items

  Wands of Doors by Arkhein

• Rules

  The Scoundrel, Part 1 by Grognardling

Cartoon

Temple of Brog by James V. West

Advice
Providing Prep for a Prep-free Game by Kirin

So that's the index for Issue 3. Its been a bit of a learning experience putting this together but I am coming to believe that its getting better and easier at the same time. I'm starting to feel ambitious so I may have a surprise in the near future for all of you reading this. Thanks, S.

Issue 2 - April 2011

Editorial
On You're (sic) Role-Playing Wrong by -C

Reviews
• Games
  Skeletons and Starships - Mazes & Minotaurs and Stars Without Number reviewed by Joe Nelson

• Game Products
  TFT: The Land Beyond the Mountains review by A Paladin in Citadel

• Books
  Surge of the Wine-Dark Sea review by Matt Finch
  Hothouse review by James Maliszewski

Short Story
A Decision Must be Made
A Practical Arrangement
Midnight Snack
A Knock on the Door
Chapters by Dungeonmum - Inspired from "Decade of Darkness" Call of Cthulhu campaign she participates in.

Game Content
• Adventures
  Castle Bélial by Il Male™

• Monsters
  The Croucher by Studio Arkhein
  Ho-ru, the Black Lizardmen by Underworld Kingdoms
  Mermaid by Beedo

• Spells
  Conjure Undead by Wymarc

• Magic-Items
  Dragonsfoot Magic Item Library

• Rules
   Wavecrawl Kit by Zak Smith
   Quick and Dirty Disarm Rule by Michael Curtis

Cartoon
Clandestinauts 04-07-2011
Clandestinauts 04-14-2011
Clandestinauts 04-21-2011
Clandestinauts 04-28-2011
by Tim Sievert

Advice
Declaring Before Initiative? Maybe Not... by Cyclopeatron

April sadly didn't offer much in terms of  Magic Items so I linked to the list on Dragonsfoot to hopefully inspire more item creation. My personal opinion was that the A-Z blog challenge made April 2011 a wasteland of content but overall I think that there were some good posts published. Enjoy. S.H.

Issue 1 - March 2011

Editorials
Arrows and Boxes and Columns and Bullet Points - By Zak Smith
   About the need for better graphic design in RPG products

Reviews
 • Games
   Dominion Online for Free suggested by -C
 • Game Products
   Lesserton and Mor reviewed by James Maliszewski

Short Story
   Cave of the Shenandoah by Zachary Houghton
   Its from last year, not this month but who cares, enjoy.

Game Content
 • Adventures
    Escape form the Lost Laboratories by Wordman
    Eastern Boondocks - A Campaign Map by Greg Gorgonmilk
 • Monsters
    Flying Eye by Dr. Rotwang!
    The House Knoblin by Greg Gorgonmilk
 • Spells
   (still looking for something from March 2011)
 • Magic Items
   (still looking for something from March 2011)
 • Rules
   Doctor Mechanic by Zak Sabbath
   OSR Rosetta Stone by -C

Cartoon
The Clandestinaughts  by Tim Seivert
Loaded Dice written by Olan Suddeth, Art by Annick Huber

Advice
5 Tips for Horror in D&D by Stuart

So this is the first issue contents. Its not exactly what I had hoped but its proof of concept. Next month should be a little more refined. Please let me know if you have any leads on content for the various sections. Thanks.

Message from the editor

How did I get into this and what am I going to do now that I'm here?

Yesterday I was reading a post on Cyclopeatron regarding OSR blogs and how they are pumping out a Dragon Magazine's worth of material every day or two, an exciting observation of itself.  It was however the following quote that got me thinking.

"Entirely too much of that dragon magazine's worth of material is equivalent to forum letters, rather than articles. I am fairly frustrated during my daily blog roll review at the amount of posts that are nothing more than opinion pieces on "what OSR means" and the absurd "OSR is dead" other rubbish". -C from Hack & Slash   www.hackslashmaster.blogspot.com

It was then that I thought surely there WAS a Dragon Magazine's worth of content out there, it just needed to be collected in an edited form, and specifically in the form of an RPG magazine index that linked to each of the individual articles. 

That is what The Wyrm is. If you have any recommendations about specific articles or general content that you think should be covered please leave a comment for consideration. I plan to create an index for the "magazine" once a month. Look forward to the March 2011 "issue" in the coming week.