TrollsZine Issue 2

TrollsZine Issue 2 Issue 2 of TrollsZine, the new Tunnels & Trolls magazine has been recently released on Lulu. The free magazine is available at Lulu and this issue not only features a full-color cover but it’s also a whopping 92 pages long!

The content is definitely top-notch and there’s a lot of stuff that any fan of T&T can put to good use, but I am not too fond of the layout. I would have preferred a more magazine-like look. But perhaps they are trying to retain that old-school feel in layout, too.

But aside from that minor issue, I very much enjoyed leafing through the new issue of TrollsZine. As soon as I have time, I will make sure I read it from cover to cover. I can wholeheartedly recommend the magazine to all fans of T&T in particular and Old School Gaming in General. It’s definitely worth your time!

Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for his English language role-playing games blog, Stargazer's World, and for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. He has also worked as an English translator on the German-language Dungeonslayers role-playing game and was part of its editorial team. In addition to his work on Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Dungeonslayers, he has created several self-published games and also performed layout services and published other independent role-playing games such as A Wanderer's Romance, Badass, and the Wyrm System derivative Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, all released through his imprint Stargazer Games. Professionally, he works as a video technician and information technologies specialist. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

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Ken St. Andre

Stargazer, the people doing TrollsZine have zero experience with producing magazines. Thus, what they do is a simple conglomeration of the material available to be published. It's not that they're trying to be Old School–it's just that T & T and its spinoffs were Old School before Old School was invented. However, for any T & T player or fan, TrollsZine does contain a ton of good material and more will be coming in the future.