#interplay magazine

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“Staff to Weapon,” IQ17 spell, changes a wizard’s staff to another weapon type and allows them to wield it as if they had the required talent, though normal DX penalties will apply if the new weapon exceeds the wizard’s ST.  Several artists drew characters for The Fantasy Trip, Melee, and Wizard with a bell-bottom ‘70s clothing vibe.  (John Sullivan, for “Variant TFT Spells” by Ian Bell, Interplay 2, Metagaming, July-August 1981)

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Barbarian dragon slayer (Pat Hidy, Interplay zine, Metagaming, Sept/Oct 1981, for Ron Hopkins’ article “A Dragon of a Different Color” describing 11 variant dragon types for The Fantasy Trip)

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If you downloaded Melee (still free on DriveThru RPG) and you need something more than wolves and bears to fight, try a giant walking virus (Paul Wagner, 2nd place contest winner for best TFT monster in Interplay No 4, also credited for the 1st place monster and 2nd place spell in the same issue, Metagaming, Nov/Dec 1981)

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Spaceship bristling with gun turrets (Norman Royal, from ad for Interplay zine in back of Treasure of Unicorn Gold, Metagaming, 1981)  I must have drawn over a hundred similar ship profiles myself, inspired by a few like this in various Metagaming publications.

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One of the little characters you'll find lurking in game rules between the charts and tables.  (Richard Becker from Interplay No. 7, Metagaming, May-June 1982.)

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A sketchy character, sketched by Richard Becker in the margins of Interplay No. 7, Metagaming's in-house zine, May-June 1982.

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On guard in the labyrinth.  (Robert Ward from Interplay No. 7, Metagaming, May-June 1982.)

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Tentacled gun-toting thing, from space.  (Elrohir, aka Kenneth Rahman, from Interplay: The Metagamer Dialogues, No. 1, Metagaming, May-June 1981.)