Category: Past Issues

A Tale of Terror – Sawbucks

"Sawbucks" illustration by Dennis Detwiller, (c) 2011.

A Tale of Terror is a short scenario premise with three different possibilities for what’s really going on. Keepers can mine them for ideas, taking that which appeals and discarding that which does not. “Sawbucks” is by Monte Cook, (c)…

TUO 2: Introduction to TUO 2

(C)1993 John Tynes TUO2 appeared in the late spring/early summer of 1991, after weeks of delays. The path of TUO1 from photocopied-for-fun to a nationally (and internationally) distributed publication was quick and confusing. By TUO2, we’d found a business printer…

TUO 2: The Dread Page of Azathoth

(C)1991 John Tynes [This was a real landmark, in retrospect. Below you’ll find the infamous story of the decapitated dog, which led to the even more infamous story of the severed dog’s head (covered in TUO4). No, the decapitated dog…

TUO 2: A Chip Off the Old Blob

(C)1991 Scott David Aniolowski [Scott has always had a fetish for monster stats! He made his TUO debut with this article, the first of a couple he did along these lines. Lately he’s turned this fetish into a Chaosium project,…

TUO 2: Message In A Bottle

(C)1991 John Tynes [This feature debuted in TUO1, but due to an oversight The Annotated TUO1 didn’t include it. Ah well – I think I’ll let sleeping dogs lie and leave it as one more buried treasure for those who…