Stop me if you've heard this one: Traveller is probably my favorite roleplaying game . Although I've played it far less often than I...

One of my most popular posts is "The Ages of D&D ,"  which I wrote more than fifteen(!) years ago, on January 11, 2009. In it...

In starting this new iteration of The Articles of Dragon,  I struggled a bit with deciding when to begin. The very first issue of Dragon I ...

For today's look at the art of TSR era Dungeons & Dragons , I've decided to step away from monsters and instead focus on somethi...

Could the cover of issue #15 of Polyhedron (December 1983) by Keith Parkinson be any more 1980s if it tried? Like most recent issues, the il...

Yesterday, several of you sent me a link to an announcement by the United States Postal Service that, in honor of the 50th anniversary of D...

Issue #12 of Polyhedron (June 1983) features a very striking cover by Larry Elmore that depicts a pegasus-riding warrior about to engage a r...

Issue #4 of Polyhedron (March 1982) is the first issue to officially bear that title, though it's nowhere to be seen on its cover, which...

Larry Elmore joined TSR as a staff artist in late 1981, after which his artwork became a staple of the company's many products, from Dun...

I was flipping through issue #55 of Dragon (November 1981), an issue I never owned – or saw – back in the day and only relatively recently a...

The very first issue of Dragon I vividly remember buying was issue #62 (June 1982), in large part because of its spectacular cover painting ...

I don't pretend to understand a great deal about advertising. In fact, I am regularly baffled by the approaches taken in many ad campaig...

I've mentioned before that the very first issue of Dragon I remember  buying  (as opposed to owning or reading) was issue #62 (June 198...

Via this very useful site , I was able to prove that my age-addled recollections of their having been a Dungeons & Dragons pinball game ...

As promised, here are some scans of a few pieces of artwork from the 1982 French edition of Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set edited by Tom M...

If you ever need a concrete reminder that the days of Dungeons & Dragons as a mainstream pop cultural phenomenon are long past, you need...