About a month and a half ago my friend reintroduced me to the pleasures of D&D, when he bought the new 3.5 core rulebooks. This was after a 10 year absence from the game. In fact, the last thing I bought for AD&D/D&D was Dungeon #57. Before that, I was an avid collector of the magazine, owning most of the issues between #13 and #57. Recently, when my parents visited me, I had them take the musty magazines out of my old bedroom's closet and bring them with (much to my mother's delight).
For the last two weeks, I've been enjoying all of those old adventures, reacquainting myself with several old favorites and re-evaluating authors whose work I disliked when I was much younger (sorry Willie Walsh, I didn't know what I was thinking, though I'm still a little iffy about bermuda shorts wearing lava mephits). Now I know what happened to Willie Walsh from the Issue 37 thread, and Christopher Perkins is still an active writer for Dungeon, but does anyone know what happened to some of my favorites: Peter Aberg, Paul Cullota, David Howery, Steve Kurtz, Randy Maxwell, and Ted Zuvich? They all seemed to have disappeared in the mid-90s.
I think Ted Zuvich works on computer games. His adventures were some of the most memorable ones I ever ran.
David HoweryDavid's still around and kicking, and contributes to Greyhawk discussions regularly on ENWorld. I don't recall his user ID there offhand, but perhaps someone else will.
his ENWurld alias is David Howery
i miss Willie Walsh.
Glad you're still with us Dave, so to speak. I greatly enjoyed your earlier work, particularly your jungle-themed adventures. They were great adventures all and I still enjoy re-reading them after all this time.
I recently got sucked back into adventure writing after a near 10-year break, so watch out ... just when you think the muse has departed it can show up out of the blue with a vengence. :)
Wolfgang Baur
i miss Willie Walsh.
Because I mainly ran adventures for lower-level parties, I ran a good number of Willie Walsh's adventures.
They were some of the most fun, most memorable adventures for both me and my players.
I hope he's alive, kicking, and I'd love to see more adventures from him, if he's writing them, that is.
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Wolfgang Baur
Last I heard, he was still writing. And he can be summoned on these boards, though he's slow to respond.
<strong>Steve Kurtz</strong> has a family on the East Coast and is working in the Mechanical Engineering field. I think both work and family took precedence over writing. And moving cross-continent (twice!) may also have sunk his gaming group.
<b>Paul Culotta</b> retired from the Army in the 90s and I saw him socially once or twice on the West Coast. Great guy, full of energy, but we dropped out of touch.
PS. Hi again, Willie. Bermuda shorts? :)
Oh man! The good olde days!
I still have many of those old Dungeon mags. I think I had a subscription going for about two years in the late '80s.
Just recently my group was planning to go into the jungle, and I couldn't miss the chance to dig out that copy with the Elephants Graveyard (#15).
At some point, one or two of those old issues went missing... The one with the Elephants Graveyard, and the one where the characters are shrunk down.
If anyone knows where I can find those adventures online, I would really like to read them again.
Thanks to everyone who worked on those old magazines! They had an effect on me far greater then mere magazine articles.