The Vizier’s Views – The Cave of the Unknown
Nov30

The Vizier’s Views – The Cave of the Unknown

Omolo the Impassive, cold fungal science-priest of distant Yuggoth (which we call Pluto a sit appears on our harmonic plane), gives nothing away to its players. Was it pleased at Koraz-hu, the Martian Vizier, for bringing a new player to the fold? As far from human as Omolo was, Koraz-hu could not imagine it was entirely displeased with Venusian Alvora’s presence, even if only through the power of the astralnet The woman projected...

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The Vizier’s Views: The Isle of Dread
Oct05

The Vizier’s Views: The Isle of Dread

Once more, The Martian Vizier appears with his views to share, as he has before…. The Dying Sea of Mars is not so vast as to give Koraz-hu, the Martian Vizier, a true appreciation of the scope such bodies can reach on other worlds. Nor is his Mars a place of fecund life, steaming jungles, or terrible monsters which lurk in half-drowned temples. The Mars which he inhabits had become hostile to such teeming creatures as had once...

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The Vizier’s Views: Fifth Edition Fantasy #15 – The Drowning Caverns of the Fish God
Aug31

The Vizier’s Views: Fifth Edition Fantasy #15 – The Drowning Caverns of the Fish God

Once more, The Martian Vizier appears with his views to share, as he has before…. When Koraz-Hu, the Grand Vizier of Mars, was next able to sit at the frigid table of Omolo the Impassive, the Triumph of the Martian Warlord had long passed. The Vizier knew that Omolo’s people sometimes used the astralnet to visit cold, high places on the Earth. Sometimes, in decades past, they had even gone so far as to visit the blue planet in...

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The Vizier’s Views: Mystery Under the Monastery
Dec22

The Vizier’s Views: Mystery Under the Monastery

Once more, The Martian Vizier appears with his views to share, as he has before…. Spaces beneath the earth extend in three dimensions. This is well known to the denizens of other worlds as well as to our own. In some worlds, use of these spaces exceeds our own, and the inhabitants frown upon our rather flat dungeon designs. When his astral form sat in the cavern of Omolo the Impassive one evening, he was therefore pleased to...

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The Vizier’s Views: The Forgotten Hive
Dec10

The Vizier’s Views: The Forgotten Hive

Once more, The Martian Vizier appears with his views to share, as he has several times before…. Gaming is not always face-to-face on Earth. So too does gaming take many shapes on various worlds we know but little of. The astralnet has been known far longer than role-playing games among the higher civilizations of the multiverse, but tireless advocates of gaming, such as the Martian Vizier, have turned it to that purpose. With...

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The Vizier’s Views: Tales From the Magician’s Skull #2
Sep07

The Vizier’s Views: Tales From the Magician’s Skull #2

Once more, The Martian Vizier appears with his views to share, as he has several times before…. The Great Martian Vizier Koraz-hu had no game that night, for, even with his vast powers and estates, the needs of the Martian Warlord sometimes required his personal attention. In this case, one of the lesser Stone Princes – silicate beings far older than Koraz-hu himself – sought to create trouble along the western edge of the Dying...

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The Vizier’s Interview: Michael Curtis
Aug18

The Vizier’s Interview: Michael Curtis

The Vizier’s (Inter)views: Michael Curtis Night lay upon North America, and Mars rode close to its sister world. The Martian Vizier had informed his Warlord that the subject would be asleep, but it was not so. Perhaps with some deadline yet to be met, Michael Curtis was both awake and (apparently) prepared for the contact. The Vizier appeared before the writer, almost as though he were standing there. Only faintly could one see...

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The Vizier’s Views: The Queen of Elfland’s Son
Aug06

The Vizier’s Views: The Queen of Elfland’s Son

It has been many long years since the Martian Vizier last walked the green fields of Earth. For him, the Lands that We Know are an exotic country. His library is vast, and it contains many works that cross into Appendix N as it had been compiled by Gary Gygax. He reads Lord Dunsany like we read Edgar Rice Burroughs, not with a wistful and dreamlike longing for an imaginary past, but with a thrill of high adventure on an alien world....

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The Vizier’s Views: Dungeon Alphabet 4th Printing
Jun26

The Vizier’s Views: Dungeon Alphabet 4th Printing

“They are dungeons, yes,” said the Martian Vizier, “but not like those of Your Exalted Highness.  Far from being oubliettes to keep those best forgotten, they are places wherein memories of adventure are created and stored.” The Warlord’s frown was one of perplexity rather than displeasure. They had long known each other, these two, and each considered the other a true companion against the adversities of far-sighted Fate. “And this...

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The Vizier’s Views: Into the Borderlands
May07

The Vizier’s Views: Into the Borderlands

Koraz-hu, the Grand Vizier of Mars, has many agents within our solar system, as well as its alternative dimensions. One of these agents has brought him a new tome, filled with both history and adventure. As is his custom, the Vizier examines it closely. Into the Borderlands compiles original work by Gary Gygax and Mike Carr with a Fifth Edition D&D conversion by Chris Doyle and Tim Wadzinski of both modules B1: In Search of the...

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The Vizier’s Views: Tales From the Magician’s Skull
Apr28

The Vizier’s Views: Tales From the Magician’s Skull

Phobos has rolled through all its phases, and disappeared from the Martian sky. More stately Deimos was westering as the last die was rolled, and the players prepared their chariots for the long ride home in the Red Planet’s cold night. The Great Martian Vizier Koraz-hu was not ready to find sleep yet, so he made his way to the Great Study, where a new publication awaited his approval. Tales From the Magician’s Skull is a...

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The Vizier’s Views: The Tower of Faces
Apr18

The Vizier’s Views: The Tower of Faces

The Vizier’s Views On DCC #96: The Tower of Faces From his citadel on the Face of Mars, Koraz-hu, Vizier of the Red Planet, watches the cosmos. Here he offers insights into one of the newest adventures put forth by the talented scribes at Goodman Games. The Tower of Faces is a 6th level adventure by Nick Judson, with interior art by Tom Galambos, Doug Kovacs, Cliff Kurowski, Peter Mullen, and Stephen Poag. Cartography is by Stephen...

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