Mordschlag Sword and Sorcery Magazine is dedicated to the craft of thrilling, thew-bound tales of Sword & Sorcery and Heroic Fantasy.

Every pocket-sized issue of Mordschlag contains a fistful of new short fiction, an article analyzing the genre, and monster stat-blocks pulled straight from the tales and ready-to-play in ShadowDark RPG.

FICTION FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE

• Flight from the Cabal Court by G.W. LeCroy: An adrenaline-filled chase through a city of sorcerous intrigue.
• Deserter’s Bane by H.R. Laurence: A gang of indentured thieves escape from their ogre-master.
• The Sword of Wrath by Cullen Groves: A king brings his enemies close and is haunted by his fallen son.
• The Dragon of Ost’safir by Lee Patton and James D. Mills: An unkillable warrior faces an unstoppable assassin.
• Gnawed Bones by M. Stern: A general leads an impossible battle against insatiable cannibals.

NON-FICTION FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE

• Forging New Nexuses by Phillip Royce Johnson: An analysis of the encouragement sent in letters between H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and C.L. Moore.

MENAGERIE MACABRE

• Four monsters based on the fiction
• The Revenant Prince. A two-page adventure module where the players lay to rest the revenant of a fallen Bronding Prince.