A Sword By Any Other Name

The Sword of Ash, by ashpwright

While crawling the web for an old school D&D mystery I stumbled on a pdf of Different Worlds No. 4 from 1978. In those pages are plenty of insights of the early days of the hobby. Most exciting to me was an article by J. Sapienza with many d1000 tables to “produce interesting and unique magical weapons”

To the Google Sheets! We now have a tool to quickly produce magic weapons in-line with Sapienza’s original ideas. Find that tool here.

Some examples of the tools output follow and while the formatting is a bit rough the text can be easily captured and modified to suit any need.

Finally, Sapienza mentions that his article was originally published in issue 32 of “The Wild Hunt”. Another old school D&D mystery that requires investigation – RPG Geek gives a clue here, but I’m no closer to reading those ancient pages.

If you can help with digital scans of The Wild Hunt I would be most interested.

3 thoughts on “A Sword By Any Other Name

  1. Thomas Wendt January 9, 2022 / 12:57 pm

    Cool!

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  2. Ron January 10, 2022 / 8:07 am

    I’ve never even heard of The Wild Hunt. Have to keep looking!

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    • Aron Clark January 10, 2022 / 8:11 am

      Cool – let us know if your turn anything up.

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