Okay, we'll stop that line of discussion before it goes any further. If it continues, I'll lock the thread.
Nathan, Dragon was TSR's house magazine for Dungeons and Dragons players, and is still published by WotC/Hasbro. I haven't read it for a long time, but at least back in the 80s they used to do fun stuff in the April issue, like write-ups of Bugs Bunny in D&D terms, and silly grimoires with stupid spells, and things like that. For a while they called the April Fool's section of the magazine "Nogard". Anyway, one year way way back, they had a couple pages of "half-level" spells that anyone could do. And this is almost certainly the source of the UF ref, since Gryph and gang overlap my generation by enough that we were likely reading the same issues of Dragon at the same time.
(For anyone with access to back issues of Dragon, btw, take a look at the TOCs for #78 and #100. Spot any familiar names? )
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Nathan, Dragon was TSR's house magazine for Dungeons and Dragons players, and is still published by WotC/Hasbro. I haven't read it for a long time, but at least back in the 80s they used to do fun stuff in the April issue, like write-ups of Bugs Bunny in D&D terms, and silly grimoires with stupid spells, and things like that. For a while they called the April Fool's section of the magazine "Nogard". Anyway, one year way way back, they had a couple pages of "half-level" spells that anyone could do. And this is almost certainly the source of the UF ref, since Gryph and gang overlap my generation by enough that we were likely reading the same issues of Dragon at the same time.
(For anyone with access to back issues of Dragon, btw, take a look at the TOCs for #78 and #100. Spot any familiar names? )
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.