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segment, more content, and allowed another player to join in. The second expansion added three schools of magic, several summonable monsters, and also additional content. All Wiz-War products from
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confirmed they would produce the 9th edition of Wiz-War. They formally announced they had acquired the rights to publish their own edition of Wiz-War with an announcement of an artist to be confirmed later.
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bag. The second, third, and fourth editions feature higher production values and a brown box featuring cover art by Jolly. Jolly also self-published two expansions starting in 1988 and 1991, respectively.
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fast-paced, cutthroat, back-stabbing, fang-snapping ... games (at least on occasion), and if you can find other such people to play as well, then the
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