As I stated in the introduction, The Origin of Tree Worship was originally produced as a hardcopy fanzine. This page culls some of the articles now that the fanzine is no longer being produced. For the record, the following issues were released: |
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The Origin of Tree Worship 1 was an A3 sheet folded in two, reminiscent of the old early printing polemics and given away free to Warpstone subscribers. Articles were edited and reprinted in issue 3.
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The Origin of Tree Worship 2 was also an A3 sheet, similar to issue 1.
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The Origin of Tree Worship 3 reprinted issues 1 and 2 into the A5 format and was released to help fund a table at Dragonmeet 2002. Articles include a whole host of short 'position pieces' on minor items (elves, the role of history, templars of Verena etc). New pieces included the Kislevan borderlands, Carroburg and road wardens.
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The Witch- Hunter Cometh was a convention scenario written by myself and Alfred Nunez Jnr for running at tournaments to support WFRP and Hogshead. It came with pre-generated PCs and everything needed to run the game. I always regarded this as a seminal work that we did, since it has a groundbreaking notion behind it (even if I say so myself!). |
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The Curse of the Clan Heirloom was another convention scenario written by myself and Alfred Nunez Jnr for running at tournaments to support WFRP and Hogshead. This was an all-dwarf PC game. |
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The Origin of Tree Worship 4 was the first issue that really decided me to try and keep the fanzine going on a regular basis. Pride of place went to a skaven article by Alfred Nunez Jnr and a round table discussion of WFRP post-Hogshead. I wrote a small piece on the Battle of Wolfenburg during the Empire Civil War.
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The Origin of Tree Worship 5 was the first issue that attempted to develop a number of the regular sections - letters and the archives of Old World illuminati. The major article was the submission for Realms of Chaos made to Hogshead by Alfred Nunez Jnr and Anthony Ragan. My own pieces include a number of articles on fortifications and some thoughts on GW's 2003 accounts and what they say about WFRP.
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The Origin of Tree Worship 6 was a "Tim Con" special, outlining the games being run. It was 55+ pages long. Of more general interest, the majority of space was given over to the usual type of articles. These included a review of WFRP rules (by John Foody), thoughts on the then unknown WFRP 2nd edition (by Clive Oldfield and Robert Rees) and an excellent viewpoint and mini-campaign centring on the GW Khemri undead (again by Robert). There was also a full Alfred Nunez con scenario.
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The Origin of Tree Worship 7 contained articles on the Old Faith (by Alfred Nunez,), character generation ideas for a new WFRP edition (by Robert Low), apothecaries (by the Dark Knight), a review of the new WFB Bretonnia army book (by Clive Oldfield) and thoughts on Language, Ice Wizardry and low fantasy adventures by myself.
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The Origin of Tree Worship 8 was a TimCon II fanzine, supporting the convention. Of wider interest was a new adventure by Clive Oldfield, an article on the soul by John Foody, the Pilgrim halfling deity by Ken Rolston and Alfred Nunez Jnr, and thoughts on developing NPCs by me.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy contained a long discussion of WFRP2, GW and the poor state of the RPG 'industry' together with a review on new releases, and those that I had recently come across. The core of the fanzine was a review and discussion of the Storm of Chaos campaign, and what it means for WFRP. Imperial Kislev river wardens and some WFRP2 cameos rounded off the issue. |
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Hope That Clears This Issue Up Chaps! was the TimCEPTION convention free fanzine, and a double-first. It was the first ever WFRP2 fanzine for the first ever WFRP2 convention. An excellent look back at Leopoldheim and the Southlands by Dark Knight offered us a last glance at the old, whilst Alfred Nunez attempted to make sense of the new political order. Rangwe from Strike-to-Stun forum offered his varied thoughts on WFRP2 and Black Industries. |
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Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy was the free fanzine for TimCON III convention attendees. It included a Clive Oldfield WFRP2 "Choose Your Own Adventure", Robert Rees on his first experiences of WFRP in Web of the Eldaw, Steve Moss bought us all a drink in the Rusty Barnacle, and I spent some time in the marketplatz again. Plus more, including Simon Dennett on Blood on the Reik and my editorial ramble on all things GW. |
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The Man That Corrupted Bergsburg was the free fanzine for TimCON IV convention attendees. It included my ‘lost’ and last Correspondent, the one that was dropped from Warpstone 24 because of assorted nefarious and underhand backstabbing. Or that’s what my autobiography will say! This discussion of combat in RPGs generally and WFRP2 in particular was complimented by a timely discussion on WFRP2 artwork by John Foody. I spent a couple of minutes in the marketplatz again, and there was various TimCon material, including the game that I didn’t dare run. It was only available to attendees, free of charge at my expense. |
