ADVENTUROUS!
An E-zine for Readers and Gamers
A NEW CONCEPT IN READING AND GAMING!
You won't have to be a gamer to enjoy ADVENTUROUS!,
but gamers will get an added bonus!
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Brought to you by Cyber-Pulp, each PDF issue will feature top-notch fiction in an adventurous vein, written by professional writers, AND each tale will be followed by d20 RPG gaming stats related to the story. These may include NPCs, new magic items, feats, monsters, etc.
We will be focusing on providing a wide array of material, suitable for players and game masters whether you prefer swords and sorcery, Lovecraftian adventures or modern intrigue.
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The following stories and articles are featured:
• Cover Art by Brian J. Germain
"The Quest for Dragonmane"
• Eight interior illustrations by Sean and G.W. Thomas.
• "The Shades of Sillk" by David Bain
Featuring Shin the Scholar and Skulk the Skull-Faced.
Our heroes' first-ever encounter with their arch-nemesis.
• "The Trunk of Aristhius" by Jon F. Merz
Did the antiquarian's new trunk once belong to The Mad Arab?
• "Rolling Stock" by Steve Vernon
Everyone knows telling a demon your true name is dangerous.
But what if your name is Easter Noon?
• "Homo Vagabondis: The Hobo" article by G.W. Thomas
How to be a hobo, and why vagabonds make good RPG characters.
• "The Cronch-icles -- Karmag Kills" by David Paul
First in the continuing journals of a somewhat-smarter-than-average barbarian orc.
Sometimes surviving Mother Nature means rising above your own nature.
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Issue #1 is already scheduled to feature:
• "Cats of the Lost Canyon" by David Bain
A true "cliffhanger" as Shin and Skulk learn the cause of the caterwauling!
NOTE: While this will be a complete tale, readers will be invited to a contest to write the epilogue!
Pay will be paid publication in a future issue!
• "Repo" by Jon F. Merz
Two car thieves encounter a particularly nasty hearse -- and its even nastier owners!
• "Toril and Cort" by Barbara Davies
She rescued the thief. He helped her save the sword. Then he stole the sword...
• "Ruins and Wraiths" by Charles A. Gramlich
Raath woke up to an empty world -- empty except for the girl and "the ones who came after."
• "A Good Walk" by Steve Vernon
Ultraviolence on the greens! Golf spelled backwards is flog!
ADVENTUROUS! presents a mini-game of "carnage on the course"!
• The second installment of "The Cronch-icles" by David Paul
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Issue #2 is already scheduled to feature:
• More Shin and Skulk!
• "Roadkill" by Ken Goldman
Ol' Zeke likes runnin' down critters with his pick-'em-up truck.
Tonight Zeke's picked the wrong critter.
• "Lone Wolf" by Barbara Davies
All the hippies want is to eat Peter the bookseller and his little dog Rory.
Luckily, their latest customer is more than just a chick with a wicked crossbow.
• More Cronch!
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Other authors who've agreed to work with us on forthcoming issues:
Steven Shrewsbury
C. J. Burch
H. Turnip Smith
(Please note we are not taking unsolicited submissions!)
