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mbassoc2003
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:16 am

CASIA aka The Dave Casciano Company aka Attack International Wargaming Association, put out two books in 1977/1978. The first called Book of the Dragons and the second called Interfax of Spells and Black Magic.

I'm hoping there may be someone out there who has one of these, who can confirm their existance.

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:13 am

mbassoc2003 wrote:CASIA aka The Dave Casciano Company aka Attack International Wargaming Association, put out two books in 1977/1978. The first called Book of the Dragons and the second called Interfax of Spells and Black Magic.

I'm hoping there may be someone out there who has one of these, who can confirm their existance.

Googled it and the full name is: The Infernax of Spells, Necromancy and Black Magic
Author(s): Dave M. Casciano, M. Fisher, G. Mangene
40 pages
(found in a cached RPG index page)

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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:27 am

Plaag wrote:Googled it and the full name is: The Infernax of Spells, Necromancy and Black Magic
Author(s): Dave M. Casciano, M. Fisher, G. Mangene
40 pages
(found in a cached RPG index page)

ShaneG.

Thanks, Shane.

I didn't know about the Necromancy bit.
That now raises the question.. does anyone know anything anout Tower of Elbrith?

So there are three publications ATM...

Book of the Dragons (1977)
The Interfax of Spells, Necromancy and Black Magic (1978)
Tower of Elbrith (1979)

Does anyone know if they put out any other publications?
Can anyone help me put a picture to any of these?

Faithfully,
Ian

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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:39 pm

I have Infernax, and I know for a fact Tower exists. I do not know about Book of Dragons.

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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:29 pm

Someone on the Acaeum mentioned they had Tower of Elbrith a little while back. Lets see if I can find the link...

viewtopic.php?t=1117&highlight=elbrith

Desuma_Malevois has it.

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Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:38 pm

Thanks, M.

In London ATM twiddling my thumbs for a few days. I'll chase that up at the weekend.

In the mean time, thanks to Frank, I have put Casciano's page up.

Don't any of you guys go selling anything rare while I'm aware

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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:38 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:CASIA aka The Dave Casciano Company aka Attack International Wargaming Association, put out two books in 1977/1978. The first called Book of the Dragons and the second called Interfax of Spells and Black Magic.

I'm hoping there may be someone out there who has one of these, who can confirm their existance.

*bump* (belatedly)

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That's what I get for browsing to check whether tfm dug out any other "interesting" items in his ongoing 100% successful win spree.

(At least the $275 paid for "Two Towers" gave me a smile.

)

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p.s. Ah... typo in the eBay listing. Now I see... ^^

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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:48 pm

I missed that one too

Although, I do know one Acaeum member that has a copy of the book as well so its good to see that these do show up every once in a while.

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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 10:29 pm

Have at it

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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 11:05 pm

Been a few copies of Infernax through the pipe since this thread started. Also a few copis of Book of the Dragons. Could also note that Tower of Elbrith and Thieve's Quarter do exist as well.

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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 4:46 am

Mars wrote:Could also note that Tower of Elbrith and Thieve's Quarter do exist as well.

Any pictures of those?
Do you have them?

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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 9:36 am

Here is Thieves' Quarter:

http://tomeoftreasures.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2718

I don't have Tower of Elbrith but Al picked up a copy at GenCon last year.

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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 9:59 am

i have a tower of elbrith. iirc it has an outline of a woman's face on the otherwise nondescript cover.

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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 12:16 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:CASIA aka The Dave Casciano Company aka Attack International Wargaming Association, put out two books in 1977/1978. The first called Book of the Dragons and the second called Interfax of Spells and Black Magic.

I'm hoping there may be someone out there who has one of these, who can confirm their existance.

Hi. Just registered for this site. Not sure how it works. Anyway, I have "Dawn World" by Dave Casciano and such, c. 1980. Just to let you know.

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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 1:45 pm

nicketts wrote:Hi. Just registered for this site. Not sure how it works. Anyway, I have "Dawn World" by Dave Casciano and such, c. 1980. Just to let you know.

Is Dawn World copyright Dave Casciano? I know its by Morrison (who did Thieves Quarter and Tower of Elbrith) but I thought it was published by someone else

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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 3:43 pm

Mars wrote:I thought it was published by someone else

Same here....Juggernaut Press. Never knew if they published anything else.

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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:32 am

Bump!

Found this:

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...i didn't know it was reprinted! It seems a copy of the original...

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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:37 am

it wasnt

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