Enchanted Realms Magazine: Issue 2, September 2026

Issue 2 of Enchanted Realms turns its pages toward a bold announcement: one party of adventurers is setting out to play through every official 2nd Edition AD&D module ever published, from the fog-choked halls of Ravenloft to the scorched dunes of Dark Sun. Co-founder Anthony "Woodie" Woodward follows with a cautionary account of his own worst session ever, a level-one wipeout that took four rounds and left the whole table speechless.

For readers who split their evenings between a good story and a session at the table, this issue rounds up four blockbuster romance-and-adventure sagas, including Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses, and offers the complete start-to-finish order for a decades-spanning, monster-fighting heroine's saga. A pair of companion essays weigh which storytelling staples land better on the page against which ones land better at the table.

Session runners get practical craft too: the case for slowing a long-running story's pace, an essay on how writing fiction and running sessions sharpen each other, and an even-handed look at software-assisted play versus a low-tech pencil-and-notebook style. A sprawling, season-by-season schedule tracks gatherings and meetups across the United States through next summer, and the issue closes with a preview of a nine-part cottage-craft saga set in a warm, low-stakes valley community.

Whether tonight's plan involves a good read or a night of dice, this issue has something worth carrying to either one.