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The Alchemist's Bench: Archives Issue #5: June 30, 1999

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IN THIS ISSUE WELCOME NEWS QUEST and ATTACHMENTS Necromancer's Lair and Dark Spells CRAFTS Making New Furniture and Scenery GAME PROFILE TSR's Dragonstrike NEW MONSTERS Necromancers, Liches, and Undead Champions QUEST DESIGN Creating the Maps WELCOME! The Alchemist's Bench is a completely free e-mail based newsletter that exists to provide information, ideas and interesting new gaming material for Milton Bradley's terrific yet out-of-print HeroQuest boardgame. Also, feel free to visit our website for back issues of this newsletter and assorted other goodies. It's small but growing fast, and, like this newsletter, it's free! The URL is http://www.heroscribe.org/thealchemistsbench/ A WORD FOR SUBSCRIBERS WHO RECEIVE OUR ATTACHMENTS Different internet providers impose different restrictions on the size of attachments that their users can receive. If an attachment is ever too large to come through your server, or if it ever gets 'garbled' in the transmission, simply click on the links provided to download the files that were in the attachment. (These links are found throughout the newsletter, as part of the articles that describe the downloads. NEWS The Red Dragon's Guild Homepage has been updated with a new look. There's also a new character there. (http://members.fortunecity.com/ozgurhan/games.htm) The HeroQuest Page at Uncle Owen's Moisture Farm has been updated with new content as well. (http://www.heroscribe.org/owens/index.html) The HeroQuest Resource Page now has Barbarian Quest Pack icons and overlays (http://www.oocities.com/igymnast/games/heroqest/create.htm ). To view the rest of the Resource site, click on the "HeroQuest" logo at the top of each of the site's pages. eBay has implemented a new function for its registered users. You can save up to three items that you frequently search on (such as HeroQuest, Hero Quest, etc.) and they will automatically e-mail you when a new item comes up for auction in these categories. QUEST and ATTACHMENTS NECROMANCER'S LAIR QUEST; DARK SPELL CARDS by Dewayne Agin This issue came with a ZIP file containing two things: the documents needed to run the "Necromancer's Lair" quest, and a BMP file containing four evil-themed spell cards. To download a copy of the ZIP file (it's about 400k), click here: attfive.zip. To download the spell cards separately, (20k ZIP file) click here. CRAFTS TECHNIQUES FOR CREATING NEW FURNITURE AND PROPS FOR HEROQUEST By Mitchel Hansinger   NEW MONSTERS NECROMANCERS, LICHES, AND UNDEAD CHAMPIONS by Dewayne Agin GAME PROFILE DRAGONSTRIKE by John Burnham (some material by Dewayne Agin) QUEST DESIGN CREATING THE MAPS by Dewayne Agin   End of Issue 5 See you next time!

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