Enter any keyword related to your topic of interest. Note that searching is not case-sensitive.
Broad Terms: Searching for orcs will find every entry in the index where orcs are mentioned, although it won't find articles about orcish mating habits.
Partial Words: You can use partial terms. Searching for psi will find psionics, psi-powers, psionicists, and psions, but it might also turn up articles about campsites, collapsible equipment, harpsichords, and solipsisms. Likewise, searching for orc, although it will turn up articles on orcish mating habits, will also unveil articles about exorcists, motorcycles, orchids, and porcupine sorcery, which I'm to understand is a somewhat prickly form of magic. So just be ready for some chaff with your wheat. Manual sifting through the search results is going to be required.
2. Compound Searching ("AND")
If you want to find the intersection of two topics, use the word and between your terms. This will return only the results that contain both words.
Example:gming and dungeon Finds Game Master advice specifically related to dungeons.
Example:magic and weapon and undead Finds articles on magical weaponry related to the undead.
3. Filtering by Category
To narrow your search to a specific genre or game system, use the Category Dropdown. This tells the script to only look at periodicals specifically devoted to that specific topic (e.g., Star Trek, Superhero, Traveller, etc.). For example, in order to find all the articles about psionics in Traveller, run two searches. In the first, select All Categories and do a compound search on psi and traveller. In the second, select Traveller from the Category Dropdown menu and search for psi. The reason for this is that most of the articles in Traveller-specific magazines are not marked as being for Traveller, as they would be if they were in a more generic gaming magazine.
4. Troubleshooting
Beware of non-standard tags: There is no standard list of tags, so some articles are described as being adventures and others as scenarios. Likewise with elvish, elven, and elfin. Even more troublesome, tags for game systems are non-standardized, so for example, Star Trek might show up as startrek, Star Wars as starwars, or Car Wars as carwars. So try searching for things multiple different ways, bearing in mind that the person who created this had no idea what he was doing.
Special Characters: For security reasons, the search currently only supports letters, numbers, and - . , ( ) & /. Other symbols are automatically filtered out.
No Results? Try simplifying/shortening your search. Instead of "Dungeons and Dragons," try searching for D&D. Instead of "Teenagers from Outer Space," try TFOS. Remember, this was originally intended to be an MS-DOS program, so I was trying to keep the line lengths down below eighty characters in order to conform with the standard, MS-DOS, 80-column terminal display.