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someone
approaches
our
with humour, as in the crew, Captain
Speaking, Miss Kirk (surely a typo),
Chekov, Uhura and Chapel.
I am pleased to see the publication
of
Traveller
Book
6
Scouts-long
overdue
-
but
I wonder
why
there has been no
mention of
it
in the Travel/er's Journal
up to now, presumably because it was
produced here in the UK. If so, is it an
'approved for use
with' product
or the
official Book 6.
Yours,
Paul Harcourt, Essex.
Actually it w s produced in the States
and is
the official product -Ed.
Dear WD.
J
am
writing
to
ask if it is possible to
print more Dungeons Dragons
scenarios in
your
magazine.
I
find
WD
very enjoyable
but I think
that there
are
lots
more people like me
who,
at the
moment, can't afford
AD D
books
until
they gain more money and would like
more scenarios in
the
magazine. I
play
Expert 0&0 but
still buy
White
Dwarf
and usually change the AD&D cam
paigns
into
0&0 scenarios.
You rs faithfu
"y,
Paul Wallis, Surrey.
We'd be quite
happy to
publish
Basic or
Expert D&D
scenarios. However,
we
can
only
print what is written
for
us. We
get sent all
kinds
of
scenarios (please
keep it
up everyone )
but, funnily
enough,
nobody seems
to
write any
for
Basic or Expert D&D
-Ed.
Dear WO
Us
low
level AO&O adventurers wish
to complain about the lack of scenarios
for us in your magazine. How can we
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he
the
Lichway. TSR are just as neglectful
Yours,
Grizzlegut Orcslayer, Sunderland.
You will be pleased to hear that next
issue's scenario for
AD&D
is a
low
level
one,
for
characters
of
1st
to
3rd
level.
Your wish
is our commandl -Ed.
Dear
WD,
Just a note to say how much Ienjoyed
Mike Polling's scenario The Key of
Tirandor.1
particularly
like the way Mike
used selected elements ofthe
game
sys
tem
to
interpret his fantasy
world, rather
than letting the ru les dictate the cam
paign background . I hope we will see
more scenarios of this calibre.
Yours,
Dave Morris, Waki ng.
Dear
WD,
Congratulations
I
White
Dwarfshows
some sign of
improvement.
Issue 50 is
probably the best issue in a long while
and
The
WatchersofWalberswickwas a
gem
of a scenario. I suspect, however,
that much
of it will be wasted on the
majority of
your
readers (who, I suspect,
will go in, all guns blazing). Imagine
my
dismay, however, with Ian Livingstone
promising changes as from issue 52.
Doesthis
mean
we will never see
the
like
of
Watchers
aga'in?
And
how
does
Lew Penpusher
do
it?
Given the opportunity for
writing
an
interesting discussion
column,
he per
petually
talks
about nothing.
Can't he
see that
people are going
to
take his
guidelines as gospel truth? I
pity
the
poor GMs successfully
running
a
low
powered
0&0 Qame
who
will have to
put
up
with
their players going 'But it
should only take me 10 adventures to gel
to level three. It says so in the Dwarf . :
Why Lew, can't you just leave
individual
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groups to play the game according to
how it suits them. You may be giving us
the benefit of your 'vast' experience but
try to remember that other people's
experiences will be different.
What with an abundance of letters
saying
how
great
the Dwarf
is, I have
grave doubts
about there
being any real
intelligence behind the magazine.
Yours,
Dave Stone, London.
Of course 'changes' doesn't mean there
won't
be scenarios like The Watchers in
WD
again. We always
try to present the
best scenarios possible in
our
pages.
And to
be fair to Lew; he's
not
official
or
speaking
from
on
high;
he's
just
giving
advice
to those
who may
need -
nobody's saying it
has
to
be slavishly
followed.
As to your last comment
well, we're
not
sure
quite what
you
mean but
I
can assure you that
we're
not
all mindless koboldsl -Ed.
Dear
WD,
I am
writing
to complain
about
the
review of
Mercenaries, Spies
and
Pri
vate Eyes in WD49. I feel that the review
given
by
Jon Sutherland
was far too
harsh and stems, I believe, from lack
of
reading the book.
, . The Megadeath Luck Saving
Throw
is for characters heroically cha rg ing
machine-gun nests not dodging damage.
2. Modern weapons are
deadly
and
are reflected in the rules. Also, as the
reviewer failed to notice, all the military
domestic
weapons
would
be readily
available in the USA, where the rules
were written. Also the designer stated
that gun availability
varied
around the
world.
3. The hit location table is
optional
and
is in the optional rules area of the book.
There are only two groups
of
tables
nor
mally used inthe game: the
gun
lists, all
at the back; and the missile
weapon
table
which,
indeed, should have been
repeated. However,
why
the GM
shouldn't hunt through the book for 2
tables is beyond me. Look at the DMG
for example
MSPE
is a
much better
game than a
rating of 4. I
admit
I
find
it easier
to
understand because I play T T, which it
follows closely,
but
the rules are fairly
straightforward.
Mr Sutherland,
however,
did describe
the
Jade
Jaguar perfectly; it is
really
mediocre. However, his other statements
about
this 'dull RPG'
do not hold up.
He
shou ld have read the rules properly.
Yours,
Martin Sheppard, King's Lynn.
