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Post Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:52 pm 
 

Here is an interesting post from the blog Rended Press. Looks like someone has a website with scans from the old fanzine Trollcrusher.

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Post Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:22 pm 
 

I think I saw that a few years ago.
From what I remember, for the most part, the PDFs are completely unreadable, and you have to beg the owner of the site for higher resolution copies, and even those are pretty dire.
Still, maybe someone will find something in there if they troll through it for long enough.


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:42 am 
 

I don't belive they are available.. ? I didn't ask though..

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Post Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:52 am 
 

yes, available... but have anybody of you tried to read the scans?
i found the trollcrusher site several months ago and downloaded a couple of issues... basically useless file: the resolution is so low that you cannot read any text... i though it wasnt even worth to report that site at all...


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:16 am 
 

I remember e-mailing one of the guys a year or more ago and getting a higher resolution scan on a couple of the issues. I think they were at 150dpi and still pretty dire. Maybe someone here has had better luck. The 75dpi thing is either a very poor attempt to reduce bandwidth, or a naive attempt to avoid any possible copyright infringement complaint. I'm sure if you're persistent enough you'll be able to get the original scans out of the creators. I just didn't want them enough to bug themfor months.


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Post Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:10 am 
 

Seems pointless to go through the trouble of scanning them, only to make the resolution unreadable. I did see some stuff in the Table of Contents that seemed possibly interesting.


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Post Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:47 pm 
 

The link doesn't work anymore.
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Post Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 5:42 pm 
 

There are a few poor PDFs via Wayback Machine;

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Post Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:17 am 
 

Boardgame Geek wrote:User summary:

Trollcrusher was a seminal UK fanzine that began publication in 1977 and which focused mainly on D&D and AD&D.
It was edited initially by Bryan Ansell (later an owner of Games Workshop), then subsequently in order: David Row, John Baillie and Laurence Miller. Issues 23 to 29(the last) Edited by John Drake and Rory McLean although Laurence Miller still retained the rights to it.
Trollcrusher's format was to publish contributor material as a collection of 'minizines' (e.g. APA-like). Each contributor typed up and illustrated their own articles under a heading of their choosing. The material was not edited for content and contributors had wide latitude on the content of their 'minizines'.
Articles included scenarios, new character classes and monsters, adventure write-ups, reviews, general chat, and anything else the contributors fancied.
Notable contributors included Lew Pulsipher (designer of Britannia and Valley of the Four Winds), Brian Asbury, Paul Blackwell, Jeremy Goodwin, Michael Stoner (who went on to publish The Beholder fanzine), and Brian Dolton (who published Demonsblood).
Issues 1 - 6 were published in A4 format and subsequent issues were published in A5.



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Oh, seems there was ready a fully detailed POST on these adventures.


Yeah, a shame about those horrible 75dpi scans.  I suppose someone could retype them if they were that determined.

  


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Post Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2024 12:08 pm 
 

Hi, I was the guy who scanned the Trollcrushers to pdf files. I originally scanned them at 300 dpi. The website had them at 75 dpi just to reduce the bandwidth, and the aim was to put one on each month at full resolution and cycle through the issues. But fell foul of copyright issues as Lawrence Miller still held the copyright etc. to Trollcrusher. That and the hosting site increasing the costs by nearly 200% I just let the site die.

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Post Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2024 7:17 am 
 

Is there any chance Lawrence Miller would be willing to post these for sale?  I would be more than happy to pay a few bucks per issue to get a complete set via pdf or pod.  Physical copies of the originals are nigh impossible to get in the states.  Do you have any contact info for Lawrence Miller?  Maybe I or someone could reach out to him about them.

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Post Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:25 am 
 

A couple of years ago I tried to contact Lawrence, he used to run 'Dungeons and Starships' a gaming shop in Birmingham (UK) before he managed the Gamesworkshop there and then retired. I went over and talked to people in other gaming shops to see if anyone knew more. The only thing I got was that he had retired to the country with his wife, but was not in good health. No contact details.

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