Tales from the Smoking Wyrm Issue 8 is 60 pages long, and features great art, a new class, new adversaries, and new herbs for players and judges alike to enjoy in their Dungeon Crawl Classics or Mutant Crawl Classics games! This issue is 5×8 saddle-stitched format and is printed in two-color with a full-color cover, on thick premium stock.
Issue #8 contains the following articles:
Jinn
Their names are whispered in legend, lamps are rubbed in hopefulness of dreams fulfilled, and their realms are places of mystery and the roiling chaos of the first plane rolled into one. In this article, Khaldoun Khelil details Jinn as adversaries in all their glory and magnificent depth! These are foes unlike any your characters have faced before!
The Eye Wizard
You have seen the Eye Wizard online, haunting the corners of DCC forums, Facebook groups, and your own restless dreams. Now, play one of these enigmatic creatures as a full blown class! Join us as we pay homage to Loz-the-Eye’s mysterious idea brought to life in a class writeup so massively awesome we had to invent new words to encapsulate the enigma that are Eye Wizards!
Elves: The Ones from Before
Like issue #6’s treatment for dwarves, elves now have some special uses for the Luck stat as well. Examine the nature of beings fighting against the ravages of Time itself, and explores ways to make elves a bit more… Elven.
Birth Augurs & Lucky Rolls Revisited
One can never be sure—will your humble cheesemaker assault the gods themselves or become fodder for the swine? Is your lowly gongfarmer destined for greatness, or a return to the dung heap? The sages frequenting the Smoking Wyrm bring us even more DCC birth augurs and MCC birth signs to guide your characters through their adventures.
Patron Missions: Bobugbubilz
What is not to love about the demonic lord of amphibians? Many a wizard have bonded with this patron, and now we reveal 7 missions for Bobugbubilz that will shatter your wizard’s mind! Or at least make them wish they had tried going it alone that one time.
Culpepper’s Herbal
More herbs for your game, featuring Bay Tree and Wood Avens. Make the most of the wilderness you travel through!
Onward Retainer
An adventuring comic in the old school style, starring The Legion. Part 8, brought to you by Joel Phillips
Wyrm Words
A word puzzle of all the Gygaxian words in this issue. Also included are the answers to the Issue #7’s Wyrm Words