Magic Item Mini #1

Bought at the Flywheel Zine Fest a few weeks ago in Holyoke MA USA.

Title: Magic Item Mini
Issue: 1
Publisher: Alec Adams Art
Writer: Alec Adams
Artist: Alec Adams

Micro-mini zine collecting six magic items for use with fantasy roleplaying games. These aren't given specific stat blocks, but there's enough information with each one, along with the very nice illustrations, for a gm to adapt these items to their game without much difficulty. They range from the combat-practical Owl's Shield and Weaver's Bow to the useful warding item, the Ghost Bane Lantern. On the more ridiculous side is the Staff if Immediate Livestock, and yes, it does pretty much exactly what it sounds like it does.

As with several of the other small gaming zines I picked up recently, this gives a good amount of value for its size/cost, and I expect I'll use an item or two from this in a game at some point.

Rating: 7/10

One-Page Dungeon: Quest for the Weird Stone

Bought at the Flywheel Zine Fest a few weeks ago in Holyoke MA USA.

Title: One-Page Dungeon: Quest for the Weird Stone
Publisher: Alec Adams Art
Writer: Alec Adams
Artist: Alec Adams

Another rpg adventure in zine form, this time, more of a micro-zine.This is a quick dungeon crawl with a couple of unique magic items and a monster/npc adversary. The descriptions are simple, but the GM can easily add the necessary details to work this with any D&D style rules set, and it's easy to adjust the challenge level as well.

This is a linear dungeon with interesting challenges, but no real plot and not much given in terms of backstory. Still, it definitely delivers value for its size/cost, and a group with get a fun side quest out of this at the least. Since the "Weird Stone" has vaguely-described healing properties, this would be a good quest to remove a curse placed on a PC or NPC. It's easily adaptable to just about any D&D setting.

Rating: 7/10