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In Our Next Issue

Lucky Thirteen

We are still seeking submissions for the March issue, which will be entitled "Lucky 13" in homage to Fudge Factor's troubled history as we finally reach our thirteenth issue. Articles which fit this loosely defined "theme" would be particularly welcome -- the good news is, you get to decide what that means! You can interpret it however you like -- "luckless" Fudge mechanics, superstitious magic, using something other than dice to cast your fate in Fudge, adventures featuring vast sinister conspiracies, or something completely your own!

A Classic Con Game

Lucky Thirteen will see the publication of the classic con game A Bad Day at the Lab written by Steffan O'Sullivan himself, provided courtesy of Ann Dupuis (www.fudgerpg.com), and we couldn't be more excited to be able to provide this as a part of the new Fudge Factor!

2004 and Beyond

Looking beyond the March issue, we do plan to have the occasional "themed" issue if we get enough articles appropriate to a particular genre or broad concept. These themes include:

• War (and military things): Tactics, running large battles, particular wars as campaign settings, etc.
• Space: Space vehicles, methods of FTL travel in Fudge, creating solar systems, planets, and alien races in Fudge, etc.
• Romance: Modelling relationships with Fudgey mechanics, how to run romance plots in Fudge, ideas you can borrow from Romantic literature for your Fudge games, etc.
• Horror: Fear, monsters, insanity, and all the good things in life.
• Man and Machine: Cybernetics in Fudge, robotic characters, artificial intelligence.

But if you don't have something that fits a particular theme, fear not! The bulk of our issues -- and even our "themed" ones -- will always have a few articles of general applicability for Fudge, so if you have an idea for an article -- any article -- send it on!

Renewed Commitment to Commercial Support

We are also actively interested in articles that provide support for the various and sundry commercial Fudge products out there, in the form of product reviews, adventures, characters, and so on. We'll need to clear any such articles with the publishers first (you may wish to do this yourself before submission), but we would like to see Fudge Factor give a little back to those proud and noble few who've gotten the stuff together to put out a commercial product for our favorite game system.

If you have any idea for an article, please take the time to write and submit it -- you'll be supporting both Fudge Factor and the Fudge community!