Issue #99 is an often forgotten issue in my mind. On one side we have issue #90, the Tenth Anniversary issue and on the other #100. Poor old 99 kinda gets forgotten. The cover from Clyde Duensing III is fine, but nothing special.
Letters has some questions about the Gorgon from the last Ecology Of article.
Kim Mohan's editorial talks about how Unearthed Arcana will "change the way the AD&D game is played." Not sure it did that, but it certainly began what would later become the edition wars.
The Forum covers some of these questions, in particular, the new Demi-human level limits.
Stephen Inniss is back this time with The Neutral Point of View. Or how to play those lawful, chaotic, and true neutral characters, monsters and NPCs. It's a good read and some of the philosophy would later appear in D&D 3.
Tables and Table of Troops by James Yates is actually a little more than just tables. It does, however, talk a lot about how armies move. I am pretty sure my then DM used these ideas for our world-wide war. The advantage to this article is it can still be used with every version of the D&D game.
Win $10,000 for playing an RPG? Can't be true! But that is what Pacesetter says in this ad.
Nigel D. Findley, a name I associate a lot with later 80s D&D, is up with The Ecology of the Will-o-Wisp. I covers what I always felt was ill-defined at best, the relationship between boggarts and Wisps. I think I prefer the undead version of the Wisp found in D&D 5.
Ah now, this article I do remember. Kevin Anderson and Kristine Thompson team up to give us That's Life in the Big City. We came back to this article a lot when we (my then gaming group) were working on our "Urban Survival Guide". There is not a lot here, but there is a good overview of what a fortified city is like.
Some ads.
Flipping back I see I am missing pages 30 to 39.
Looking at my CD-Rom I see it was History of a game that failed:An essay on mistakes and how not to make them by David F. Godwin. I wonder why the original owner cut this one out?
The World Gamer's Guide. Coming Attractions from TSR. This includes a new RPG, PROTON FIRE by Bruce Nesmith. Can't wait to play that one!! (more later)
The centerpiece here is the Treasure Trove II but mine is gone. No surprise there I guess.
It's too bad really. The article on Swords was good if I recall right.
Merle and Jackie Rasmussen are back with Authentic Agencies, Part III. This time they cover the Communist Bloc including the KGB and SSD, and the Middle East. It's like a trip down memory lane.
Another ad from our good friend Ramal LaMarr.
After the fiction bit we come to the Ares section.
Let's see. Alex Curylo gives us some tanks for Star Frontiers in Tanks a Lot!
It's actually kind of a great article and I remember cutting it out and putting it in my KnightHawks boxed set.
Psybots and Battle Mechs gives us a look at the new PROTON FIRE game. Look closely, because to my knowledge this is all we will ever see of that game. I have no idea why it never saw the light of day.
Marvel-Phile has some Russian super-heroes.
A Gamma-World article that has been cut out.
Lots of Cons in the Convention Calendar.
Gamer's Guide has the small ads.
Wormy weighs in at 2 pages. Snarf at 3.
All in all not a real memorable issue, minus the magic items and the article on the cities.
Want to know what was going on over the pond at this time? Check out my review for White Dwarf #67.
Take us home Ramal!
