Colossal Adventures in Twin Kingdoms of Hobbits. The Classic Adventurer is a collection of in-depth interviews, reviews, and artwork from the golden era of adventure gaming. The Classic Adventurer: Special Edition is the ninth issue in the series and features an extensive look at Melbourne House's epic Tolkien text adventure series, The Lord of the Rings. The article features an interview with many Beam Software developers and designers, some of which have never spoken about their involvement with the game before. The magazine also features the prolific award-winning adventure author Clive Gifford, Garry Cappuccini's Crack City, Tony Barber's Valkyrie 17, a memoir from RamJam Corporation co-founder Trevor Toms and a review of The Curse of Rabenstein.