Shadis
Issue 28

Table of Contents

Articles

Editorial by DJ Trindle.
Thanking the Academy
Getting Right Into the Action by Mark Jason Durall.
GM and Player Guidelines for Creating Characters for Conventions.
Four-Footed Felons by Steve Berman.
Familiars for Scoundrels.
The Horse Eater by Shane Lacy Hensley
An Adventure for the Deadlands RPG.
Pandemonium Unchained by Andrew Greenberg
Fading Suns RPG Adventure.

New and Improved Going Beyond Your Game's Given Technology by Paul Lucas

Introduction and Basic Principles
Innovation Types
Sources for Ideas and Using Innovations

Slaver's Chains Star Wars RPG Adventure by James Macduff

Situation and Mission
Plotline
Appendix: Characters


Gaia's Vengeance Heavy Gear RPG Adventure by Jeff Mackintosh

Introduction
Sequence 1: Drop Zone
Sequence 2: Best Laid Plans
Sequence 3: Endgame
Debriefing

Lost Worlds by Matt Wilson

Combat Rules of Play
Vettig: The Forest Shade
Mattha: Huntress of Denglade
Vettig: Frame Cards (extremely slow: 600K)
Mattha: Frame Cards (extremely slow: 600K)

Lights, Cameras, Action? by Strang, Passow, Walden, and Meredith.
RPG Ideas.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly by Tonia Walden.
RPG NPCs: Characters.
Starlight by Rob Vaux.
Strange Vistas Fiction from Legend of the Five Rings.

The Edge

This and That Recognizing Talent by DJ Trimble
Weasel Games 6 Weasels of Roleplaying by Lester Smith
This Just In New Products 1996 by Matt Staroscik

Reviews


Marc Miller's Traveller RPG Game Review by Matt Staroscik
Have You Seen GURPS Lately? RPG Game Review by John Wick
Reality Check Magic Users by John Wick

Lost Treasures by Matt Staroscik

Justice Inc
Traveller 2300 AD
In Search of the Unknown
Toon

Record of Lodoss War: The Anime Series and the RPG Review by Matt Staroscik
Marked for Death: Feng Shui Expansion RPG Game Review by James MacDuff
Lost Worlds RPG Game Review by Jane St. Claire
The Book of Storyteller Secrets RPG Game Review by Rob Vaux
Mind Eye Theater: Live Action Vampire John Wick Does LARP RPG Game Review by John Wick
Blue Planet RPG Game Review by Matt Staroscik

Comics

Dirk (slow: 111K) by Allan Smithee and the Freak Force

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