Friday, September 15. 1978
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Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Fantastic game
Topher, left, and Kirsten, right, enjoy playing "Dungeons and Dragons," a game for adults and children. "Dungeons and Dragons" are playing with
miniature figures but as all players they must use their imagination to overcome the difficulties of the game. A "Dungeon Master" designs a dungeon and invites the players to send their characters in it. He is the guide for each episode of the game.
Players battle evildoers in a fantasy world game
By BRUCE A.WELLS
Staff Writer
It's a fantasy world of good and evil where dragons prance restlessly through corridors that shimmer with magic. Heroes and monsters play, and there is a giant who lives in the woods.
A strange world. An existence some KU students seem to prefer the accidental life and misery of homework. A game to clear the board, or a life-threatening challenge.
"Dungeons and Dragons" is a seemingly complex game of skill and luck in set up of wizards, holymen, dwarfs, spectres and countless other characters. To an outsider, the game is senseless and childish. To a player, it's a matter of life and death.
"It's done more damage than drugs," Chuck Wagner, Beloit, senior and an occasional player, said yesterday. "Once you start, you never want to take time to study. It's a war game that never ends."
“Dungeons and Dragons” is a fantasy game with no finish that is played without a board. Some adventurers enjoy playing with the Dungeon Crawler mode, where players can run through
The game begins with players rolling dice to determine the powers of their characters. A "Dungeon Master" controls the game and explains the magical, physical and mental abilities of the characters to less experienced players.
Then, carefully hiding a map of his dungeon, the Dungeon Master invites the players to send in their characters. Power, gold and
glory are the dreams of each player as he disappears into the dunecen's cold depths.
The Dungeon Master, looking at his map, is the guide for each episode of the game. Each player carefully listens to the Master as he explains the strange and often unexpected situations that might confront the characters.
Danger lurks at every turn in the fantasy. The Dungeon Master explains the obstacles each character must face in the dungeon. Often luck has a great part in determining what fate befallen it will have. A villain will worshippers are only a fraction of the evils the players may face.
But it is each player's just for fame and fortune that usually brings him to face any dragon he might find in the dungeon.
"I think the game appeals to human greed," Richard Kay, professor of history and the faculty adviser of KU's Creative Fantasy Club, said. "It's complex and has many variations that are interesting."
Kay said his characters usually were drawn from Medieval Germanic legends. He has even tried his hand at being a Dungeon Master with a reportedly terrifying adaptation of Dante's "Inferno."
And so the game goes on. Lessons of strength, wisdom and courage renew the spirits of each character. When the time comes that even the most dedicated player must rest from his adventures, you find yourself in a world where no knows what evil will lurk in the land of “Dungents and Dragons.”
Suspense sustains 'Eyes'
"Put more blood on him." Laura Mars orders coily. "I want it to reapply drip.
Bv EVIE LAZZARINO
Several models wearing filmy silks and looks of icy nonchalance are lounging around a tiled fountain. One of them points a finger to a bedded man sprawled in the water. A camera follows.
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KANSAN Review
"The Eyes of Laura Mars" has as its heroine an ultra-chic photographic, Faye Dunaway, who shoots in Helmut Newton's sadomasochistic style.
She has psychic powers that come as visions while she is behind a camera. She
MARS RECOGNIZES the bloodied faces of the victims and once sees her own face. The visions begin to predict a nightmarish series of close friends' murders.
soon learns that her visions are strikingly identical to confidential detective
Even with a juicy role like Mars, Dumaway unfortunately does little more than remain a flicker.
The plot has holes but director Irvin Kersher has provided distractions in the form of a warehouse chase scene, eye gouged murder victims and several possible
suspects that prevent the audience from having the time to analyze the flaws and issues.
For instance, the sequences show the models being prepared and then being photographed are fascinating. The fashions, designed by Theoni Aldredge, are stunning.
However, even with its flaws, "Eyes" maintains suspense throughout.
"Eyes" falls short of being a first-rate mystery because of laziness in screen-writing. The plot could have dealt with the reality—what makes her art as she does.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Nightlife
Lawrence Opera House, 644 Massachusetts St.
vasus, Sept. 15, 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., $1.50
general admission, $1 members.
- River City Jazz Band, Sept. 15-16, on the balcony, 12:30 to 2:00 a.m., free.
Spare Time
County Park and Beam Band, Sept. 16,
9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. g general admission,
750 W. 48th St., 31st floor.
- Home Grown Harvest Band, Sep. 20,
9, p.m to 12:30 a.m. free, until 10 p.m.
Saturday
- Cole Tuckey, Sept. 22-23, 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
* $2.50 general admission, $4.00
Paul Gray and the Gaslight Gang, Sept.
25, 23, on the balcony to 2:30 a.m.
Off the Wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St.
- Rainbow Riders, Sept. 15-16, 8 p.m. to midnight, $2.
- Duck Baker, solo guitarist, Sept. 19 and 21,
8 am to midnight.
- Merging Traffic, Sept. 22-23, 8 p.m. to midnight. $1.50.
- Paul Gray's Jazz Place, 926 Massachusetts St.
- Gaslight Gang with Mike White, Sept. 16, 9
- Naroabi Trio, Sept. 15, 9 p.m. to midnight,
$3.
- Jam Session, Sept. 21, free.
Animal House, Granada, 1020
Massachusetts St., with John Belushi and
Movies
The Buddy Holly Story, Cinema Twin 7:35
3:35 p.m., m.p.m. 2:30 p.m. Sep. 16-17
Skateboard, Cinema Twain, 31st and Iowa
Skateboard, 7.30 to 9.20 p.m., mat: 2.30 p.m.
Swimming, 7.30 to 9.20 p.m.
Tim Matheson, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., 2:30
p.m. on Sept. 16-17.
Foul Play, Hillcrest, Ninth and Iowa
Golden Glow, Dickie Hawk, Cheyne Chase,
10/26 and 10/28
The Eyes of Laura Mars, Hillcrest, with Faye Dunaway, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Paye Dunaway 7:30 a.m and 8:50 p.m.
The Sound of Music, Hicrest, 7:45 p.m.
Hillcrest, 7% pix.
Hillcrest, 7% pix.
The North Face Horror Picture Show, Hillcrest,
11:30 p.m. Sept. 15-16
Coming Home, Varsity, 10.15 Massachusetts St.
with Jane Fonda, 7:30 and 9:00 p.m.
The Duchess and the Dirtwinter Fox and Mother Jags and Speed Sunset Drive-In.
SUA
Sorcerer, dir. by William Friedkin, Sept.
16. 13. 3. 10, 3. 20, 9. 3 p.m.; $1.50
Andy Warhol's Dracula, dir. by Paul Morrison, Sept. 15, 16 midnight, $1.50.
Quo Vadis? , with Deborah Kerr and Robert
Satell, Test 18.7-90 m $1
Taylor, Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m.; $1.
Children of Paradise, Sept. 20, dir. by Marcel Carne, with Jean-Louis Barault,
7:30 p.m. $1.
Car Wash, with Richard Priver and George
Washington, Sept. 23, 3:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m.
$15.00
Concerts
KU Concert Series, Janina Fialkowska,
piano, 3:30 p.m., Sept. 17, University
Theatre, students free, non-students $3 and
$3.50.
The Kansas City Philharmonic, Mozart,
Love You Madly, B. m., Sept. 15 and 22,
Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, 13th
Street and Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. $7.
Recitals
Visiting Artist Series, Igor Kipni, harpist, p.m. 5, Sept. 15, WHOUT Recital Feat.
Faculty Recital, John Boulton, flute, and Maribeth Kichoff, contralto, 8 p.m.
Student Recital, Kay Potter, violin, Sept. 20, 8 p., m.Sewun, free.
Exhibits
The Gallery, 745 New Hampshire, pottery,
and the Gallery, 745 Boston, Newman,
and Jim Gaumann, Sept. 2-9.
Landis Gallery 918 Massachusetts St., watercolors and oils by Olsen Klipper and John McIntosh
Valley West Galleries, Holiday Plaza at 23rd and Iowa Streets, fabric, silkscreens and prints and Kansas watercolors by Charles Sanderson, through September.
76 Gallery, 7 East 7th St., New Works, C.
Bangert, R. Eastwood, E. English, B. Frets,
D. Helm, J. Kellas, M. Ott, B. Roberts, J.
Tailleur.
Kansas Union Gallery, Hermann Zapf and Modern Calligraphy, Sept. 6-Oct. 2.
Ergonomics • Reproductive Print Making, until Oct. 1.
Esmart Collection of Currier & Ives,
through Sep. 24.
- The Dyer's Art: Ikat, Batik, Plangi, Sept. 30, Oct. 8.
Nelson Gallery, $25 on Lake, St. Kansas City Mo. The Sensuous Emmaus Sept. 19-Up
Odds & Ends
The Dancing Image: A Kinetic Merging of Dance and Film, with discussion by Charles Berg. Sept, 16; 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Spencer Museum.
Oriental Dyed Textiles; Gallery Talk by
Carol Hurst, graduate student in design, 3
p.m., Sept. 17, Kress gallery in Spencer
Cuseum.
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