Lessnard's fire ball spell

[aldarron]

“With a hastily muttered incantation Lessnard hurled a glowing ball at the wights, a sphere which grew brighter and expanded as it sped from his fingers, to burst in a blaze and turn the undead things to mere ashes.”
by Gary Gygax
Dungeons & Dragons - The Magician's Ring : Wargamer's Digest - Volume 2, Number 8 (June 1975)

I just find this description by Gygax to be super cool. It reminds me a lot of the Twin Cities alchemical type magic of spells in glass balls. A glowing ball that explodes on contact is a very different image from later D&D fireballs, I think.

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Worked a treat, too.

And I sold the map for that adventure through Paul Stormberg... and Jon Peterson got it!

"It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all!"

greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2010/08/magicians-ring.html

Also, SOMEPLACE in my archives, I HAVE the issue of Great Plains Game Players Newsletter with "The Giant's Bag" in it!!