#mel laybourn

Tools of the trade for adventurers (Mel Laybourn from "Enchanted Weapons Table" by John T Sapienza, Different Worlds 4, Chaosium, August/September 1979). This long article -- about 1/3 of the magazine -- included many tables and descriptions of effects to create new unique magic weapons from random combinations of traits.

Being a wizard is 50% mastering spellcraft and 50% choosing the right hat (Mel Laybourn, Different Worlds 1, Chaosium, 1979)

Sword for hire (Mel Laybourn, Different Worlds 2, Chaosium, 1979)

Dwarves from Different Worlds, Chaosium (Patrick Jenkins, issue 8, Jun/Jul 1980; Mel Laybourn, issue 6, Dec/Jan 1980; Patrick Jenkins, issue 10, Oct/Nov 1980)

Encounter: a huge carnivorous rhinoceratops thunders toward the party (Mel Laybourn, Different Worlds 6, Chaosium, Dec/Jan 1980)

Josh sent me an old monster movie magazine called Castle of Frankenstein (#17), it has 2 comics in it. The first comic wasn’t worth taking pictures of at all, terribly drawn comic by someone who clearly was a huge led zepplin fan. There is a 3 page comic called The Magic of Mel Laybourn. Not much of a story, more of a rant about being a fan of fantasy stuff more then anything. The art is great though, just crazy costume design in an illuminated manuscript type form, heavily using the type as part of the composition. Good job Mel. Also sick satanic cover by Frank Brunner. PDA