WMLP! Issue No 7 is here!

Hold onto your butts, mighty issue 7 of the fanzine of old school weirdness has hit the shelves!  

In addition to all the radness you've come to expect from WMLP!, we've included an interview with pioneering dungeon designer and fanzine creator Jennell Jaquays! We hope you enjoy!

Editorial and “Crypt Thing”

Alex Fotinakes and Bob Richens

 

Interview with a Pioneer: Jennell Jaquays

Alex Fotinakes

 

Beneath the Ruins

Alex Fotinakes

Duren, a sample city 

John Huh

 

Items of Interest 

John Huh

 

The Empire of Tong 

John Huh

The Journal of Quinoa, the Unbathed 

Bob Richens

 

WMLP! Gazette 

Bob Richens

 

Cover Art: Dr. Brainus Mangenius, Psy D

Contributing Artists: Frederick De Tapia (http://freddetapia.deviantart.com/gallery)

WMLP! #7 Update

 …and on the seventh issue they rested.

...for, like, over a year.  But, behold! The WMLP! crew is back in action and issue #7 is in the works.  Dr. Brainus Mangenius is summoning psychedelic imagery, Alexey is feverishly scribbling weird-fantasy gibberish, The Canuck's poring over his trove of forbidden lore, and John? has unwisely volunteered to do layout/editing!

Keep your eyes locked on your scrying crystals, more updates to follow!

Digital WMLP!

WMLP! goes digital!  Wat!? Yes, all you technomancers can now access the WMLP! Volume One Compilation on your arcano-tech viewing devices.  Happy New Year!  May it be filled with weird gaming!

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WMLP! Volume One Compilation Available on Lulu!

For any and all interested, the WIZARDS MUTANTS LASER PISTOLS! VOLUME ONE COMPILATION is now available for purchase on LULU.COM (visit the WMLP! Store)
In this volume you’ll find all six issues of the fanzine of Old School Weirdness, published for the first time with a real cover and binding!  No more staples catching on the inside of your briefcase when you try to sneak these bad boys into your office!

The first volume includes 6 full levels of the gonzo fantasy underworld BENEATH THE RUINS (over 160 detailed rooms), as well as new character classes, monsters, referees’ quick-roll tables, and short adventures for TSR’s AD&D 1E, and Goblinoid Games’ Mutant Future and Crypt World.

From the back cover…

WEAR GLOVES BEFORE HANDLING!
THIS ‘ZINE MAY STILL BE DRIPPING WITH MUTAGENIC PROTOPLASM!

Within lies a taste of the world of Fantasy before it was clipped and trimmed and placed in a neat box.  Animators and Musketeers delve dank dungeons teeming with Nosferrogu and Flamingodiles, where mutant tribes battle coldly calculating Luminites with poisoned spears and blazing lasers.  Shitoth the Spider Daemon and Bitlinktaknerekt the Hell Gnome stalk their deadly lairs.  The mummified head of the ancient sorcerer TuattaTan berates you for your obesity.  Genres mix and epochs mingle, arcanotech and dinosaurs, Thundarr meets Cthulhu!  Dreams coalesce and nightmares take on reality.  What is this glorious mess?!


It’s WIZARDS MUTANTS LASER PISTOLS! the fanzine of old school weirdness!

Ultra Rare WMLP! "Review"

I don't write reviews.  Mostly because one needs to be thorough, unbiased, and have the gonads to tell it like it is, and I have a hard time with those things.  (See Bryce's page for real reviews of modules.)

Nonetheless, I would not be a true brother-in-games if I did not tell you to get your virtual butt over to Al Krombach's blog and check out Warriors of the Red Planet.  And by "check out" I mean buy a copy immediately.  His blog is here.  You can buy this 24-karat chunk of SwordnPlanet awesomeness for $3.93 here.  (Yes, only 3 freaking dollars and 93 tiny cents--are you kidding me!!???)

This book is a complete RPG based on The Original, but rewritten to perfectly sync with the SwordnPlanet genre.  (You can be a Weird Scientist PC if you want)

I've never really been much of a Burroughs fan, but I love love love some CL Moore and especially Leigh Brackett.  If you're at all into that stuff, or even just want your fantasy campaign to look more like the airbrushed piece on the side of a 70's van, then this book is going to melt your brain and rebuild it with ancient alien technology so that it works way better.

Issue No 2 SOLD OUT

You may notice that the drop down choices for ordering now only offer "5 issues" as the maximum.  That is not an error.  The evil piñata golems that fulfill WMLP! orders have informed me that Issue #2 hath completely sold out.  Hereafter, you'll have to look to the forthcoming WMLP! Volume 1 Compilation to get your hands on it.  Said compilation should appear roundabout August somethingth.  

You may still, of course, order issues 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6.  Please do! :)

Issue the 6th!

Lo, verily I say unto thee, issue the 6th of yon WMLP hath arrived!  

 In this issue you'll find…

…a creepy new scenario for Goblinoid Games’ CRYPTWORLD RPG—secret government ops meets horror in the wild!

…yet another installment of Beneath the Ruins, wherein the Ice Caves and the Department of Transubstantiation are detailed.  Elusive, wooly, ice creatures, the Beast of Kokytos, and deranged practitioners of academic sorcery!

…a monster quiz that’s devilishly difficult!  MwuhahahhahahHAHAHHAHAHA! <cough!> <hack!> Mwuha.

…a long lost fragment from the Scrollus Encountercus, the premier ENCOUNTER CRITICAL fanzine of its day!

…and much more!  Okay, a little bit more.

Relevant Announcement: this issue will complete "volume 1" of WMLP! We've decided that once all the copies of #6 are sold out, as well as our current stock of back issues (#1-#5), volume 1 will be compiled and henceforth offered only as a POD compilation.  Only the new issues (7+) will be available individually through this blog.  So if you are missing an individual back issue and want to pick it up to complete the series, now is the time to do it!  At this time there's still stock of every issue--updates will be made as time goes on to reflect current stock.  Thanks!

Friday is looking good...

Beneath the Ruins Maps

Adam, the OSR ambassador to Kickassistan, made an excellent point in the comment section of my map post below.  Why not post all the maps for the published levels of Beneath the Ruins?  Why not, indeed?  Henceforth, you can click your mouse above for all five juvenile scrawlings, as well as whatever future levels get published.  Perhaps soon I'll post the sideview.

Incidentally, we'd love to hear any stories from those who've run, or played in, Beneath the Ruins.  Those I've heard so far were hilarious and I really enjoyed seeing how individual referees modified and reskinned sections.

Beneath the Ruins, Level 5 Map

 

I hate flipping back and forth to check out the map when I'm reading through a module, and if I run the module I always end up copying the map out.  Here's a copy of the map for level 5a, the Emerald Halls, for any who feel the same way and don't want to jack up their mint condition WMLP #5!

Issue No. 5

The long-delayed issue no. 5 has finally come to light!  You'll find within a creepy pumpkin patch encounter, random charts for random horrors, a strange NPC, a fully detailed dungeon level (The Emerald Halls), and a quizzical challenge for even the most diabolical DM!

 

Errata Warning: Two pages of the Monster Match Quiz were juxtaposed by our dear (sarcasm) printer, the Lightning Mage.  The continuity of the quiz isn't affected, nor is the accuracy of the Table of Contents, but we wanted to give you a heads up regardless.  Preemptive apology five! <whupa!>  

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Editorial ……………………………..…………………………   2

Alex Fotinakes

A Patch of Tentacular Jacks   ………..……………..….…  2

Venger Satanis

 

Beneath the Ruins   ……………………..……………………. 4

Alex Fotinakes

Creating a Chimera  ……………….……….……….……… 16

John?

 

Alstott Brewhammer ………………...………………….…  17

John?

Monster Match………..……….………………………..…… 18

Bob Richens

 

The Lord of the Things : Answer Sheet  ….……….… 22

Bob Richens

 

Cover Art: Dr. Brainus Mangenius, Psy D. and Frederick de Tapia

Contributing Artists: B. Mangenius, F. de Tapia, and John?

Coming Soon...

After what seems like a thousand years, WMLP #5 is almost ready to hit the shelves!  The purchase buttons have been temporarily disabled to give us time to restock back issues and reprogram the options.  In the meantime, enjoy the Spawn of Filth!

And...we have a winner!

Late Thursday night, with 3/4 of the WMLP staff on hand, we fired up the RandoRaffler 2000, intent on discovering the winner of the Greatest WMLP Giveaway Ever.  The magic number six was obtained and corresponded to the order of Faithful Reader Bryn O.!

Congratulations on your victory, Bryn!  Enjoy your Gelatinous Cube and make sure to let us know how many people see it on your desk and ask, "What the hell is that!?"

Free Giveaway!

I wanted to post this separately so that no one would miss it!

This issue your friendly, hardworking staff at WMLP is giving away a homemade Gelatinous Cube to one lucky winner.  It's made of clear resin and features an unfortunate zombie struggling to escape its jiggly mass!

Simply purchase a copy of WMLP Issue #4 on or before February 28th, 2013 and you'll be entered to win.  A random drawing will be made on March 7th to determine the lucky recipient.  Good luck everyone!

Update: Whoa! Check out Bob's blog post showing off his process and handiwork. Wicket, mon!

Issue No. 4!

Yay!  Through much turmoil, shouting and cursing, I have wrested from my laptop's clutching electronic fingers yet another mind-exploding issue of Wizards Mutants Laser Pistols!  This issue is full of fun stuff, supplied once again by the WMLP crew...John?, Bob Richens, myself, and our intrepid cover artist Dr. Brainus Manginus.  We hope you enjoy this new offering.

Table o' Contents

Editorial

Alex Fotinakes

Monstrous Addendum

John? and Bob Richens

      

The City-State of Tal ‘Azure

John?

 

Beneath the Ruins, Level 4

Alex Fotinakes

LL Character Class: TheVestigier

John?

Objets d’Occult 

The WMLP Staff

 

The Lord of the Things 

Bob Richens 

Cover Art: Dr. Brainus Mangenius, Psy D.

Updated Shipping Prices

Hello Wizards, Mutants, and Laser Pistol-wielding desperadoes!

The ordering buttons for WMLP have been updated and reorganized to reflect accurate shipping costs internationally and for multiple issues.

When ordering, choose the drop down menu for your area--US, Canada, or Internacional--and then the number of issues you'd like to order.  The last step, and a CRUCIAL one, is that you identify which issues you'd like.  We hope this makes ordering both more economical and convenient!

Game on!

Wizards Mutants Laser Pistols No 3 Available Now!

It's coming...

It had been deathly quiet for a long time.  In fact, as Steve inched his way forward in the darkness, alert to even the gentlest whisper, he wondered if he had even heard a noise at all.  He crept on, straining to distinguish any foreign sound from that made by his cloth-wrapped feet along the dungeon corridor.  He froze.  Was that the sand beneath his feet, or a manila envelope tearing open in the inky blackness? 

FLASH!  A strobe of burning light exploded in his face, blinding him almost instantly.  Almost…for in that split-second he saw a wild Wizards Mutants Laser Pistols Issue #3 lunging for his neck, then felt the cold metal of its exposed staple binding bite into his jugular.

…

Don’t be like Steve (for real, don’t be like Steve).  Be prepared when the new issue of your favorite fanzine of old school weirdness comes out this month.  

Psychedelic Fantasies presents: Beneath the Ruins Module

A greatly expanded version of the first level of Kihago, the dungeon presented in Beneath the Ruins (Wizards Mutants Laser Pistols #1) is now available as a stand alone module from Geoffrey McKinney!

Widely known for his Weird Science Fantasy Horror setting, CARCOSA, Geoffrey's current project is a line of utilitarian modules designed to deliver high doses of weirdness to your campaign.  Psychedelic Fantasies offers low-cost, highly-unique modules in a format compatible with all classic versions of the greatest fantasy RPG of all time.  Check it out!

Issue #2 Update

The second issue of Wizards Mutants Laser Pistols! is off to the printers and we should be mailing the first copies out by Friday.  This issue was a bit more of a challenge, as summer is not the ideal time for writing and layout in the life of this wizard.  Having willingly entered into a powerful geas, most waking moments have been spent protecting a magical flying princess, rather than completing layout, etc.  Nevertheless, it was great fun putting together this issue.  We hope you enjoy it and find something rad for your game table!