Hi guys---



I posted this before the forums were hacked and crashed.  Don't know if anyone recognized them, but I'll give it a whirl again.



In my copy of Chaosium's Thieves World box set, I have six non-TSR magic item cards.  They're 3x5 with a generally poor-looking illustration on the front, sometimes with the name of the item; on the back is typed info about the item, in a dot-matrix computer font.  



IIRC, my brother bought these at one of the Northeaster 1-3 conventions (yes, the same ones where I played "Treasures of the Dragon Queen") c.1982 or so.  



Here are the card names and a brief description of each:

• Ekok'karis (or, The Wind Through the Branches," a CE, bony broadsword which grants x-ray vision, and freezes bone joints of victims)
  
• Fire Star (a seven-pointed shiruken with a sun image on it; it explodes into a fireball upon impact)
  
• Holder and Summoner (a sheath with glove; it allows you to teleport the sword in the sheath into the glove's hand, and to teleport back to the sheath)
  
• Breans, The Enchanted Fruit (a peach/tomato-like fruit with leaves behind it; it has different effects based on fruit color:  earth direction, earth power, or earth protection)
  
• The Ataes (Uh-Taz; a pair of book-end like ivory gates that destroy magical gates/portals)
  
• Gem of Lore (a really atrocious image of a gemstone, it looks sort of fleshy, like a flesh golem gem....; it's sentient, acts like a sage)

These things ring a bell to anyone?

Nope, it's white paper, and relatively light-weight.

I have two map books by DunDraCon - your description (and the date) rings a bell. I'll haul them out and see if they have a product listing or any other information in them that might pinpoint this company as the source.

I have a set of the DunDraCon Inc. Artifact Cards Set no. 1(c. 1978). They are printed on thin white card stock and have black ink pictures of items(maps, pouches, a pipe, a belt, mirror, book, etc.) with artists name and date. The artist is "KVCW" , probably Kate Wadey. The instructions state that it was up to the DM to come up with a name and description. All the cards are blank on the back. I hope this helps.

I've also got the City Modules by DunDraCon, along with the Referee Map Modules. Both are printed on thin white paper - looks like they were made with a typewriter.



A quick scan of "Heroic Worlds" didn't come up with anything either. There are some magic item cards from the late 70's or early 80's listed, but all the ones I saw are on cardstock.



For reference, they are:



Treasure Troves I - Cards of Power (the Companions, 1983)



New Magical and Technological Item Cards (Fantasy Art Enterprises/Erol Otus, 1979). These cards were single-sided though, which rules them out. Plus Erol's art is pretty easy to recognize.



You'd think that anything with a magical fruit would be memorable for the kitsch value alone...

There are actually 20 magic items in a full pack of these, not 6.