By the early 1990s, AD&D 2nd Edition was in full swing, and one of its defining features was the proliferation of entries in the Player...

There was an editor's note inserted into "Thrills and Chills: Ice Age Adventures" that I thought worthy of its own separate p...

I've been an admirer of Chaosium boxed sets for a long time and consider many of them to be among the best RPG products ever released. ...

The astute among my readers might have noticed that the Boot Hill advertisement I shared earlier today appeared in the August 1979 issue of ...

The ability of several demihuman races to see in the dark is firmly established in Dungeons & Dragons. My first encounter with the game ...

When it comes to delving into history – any history, not just the history of RPGs – I tend to favor documents over memories, especially my o...

(What else?) The term "elf" is used to describe those intelligent, humanoid beings who can claim descent from the inhabitants of A...

If the Internet is to be believed, I am not only the guy who hates thieves but also the guy who believes J.R.R. Tolkien exercised no influen...

By me anyway: Secret passages will be located on the roll of a 1 or a 2 (on a six-sided die) by men, dwarves or halflings. Elves will be abl...

Thanks to Luigi "Artikid" Castellani , I can show you the first ever illustration of an Eldritch warrior rushing into battle with...

With the Eld likely to play an increasingly big role in the Dwimmermount campaign, I find myself in need of "evil elf" miniatures...

In Eldritch Wizardry , not every character may possess psionic ability. It's started early on that "All player-characters with psio...

Now that I've discussed how dwarves procreate, a few brief words on the question of elven reproduction. So far as anyone knows, elves a...

In issue #1 of Fight On! , Aaron Kesher wrote a terrific little article called "The Devil's in the Details," in which he pres...

So, over at the Temple of Demogorgon, Brunomac makes fun of poor Indel , the unfortunate elf who starred in those silly D&D comic book a...

In pre- Greyhawk OD&D, dwarves were limited to 6th level as fighting men, halflings were limited to 4th as the same, and elves could pro...

When one looks at the list of authors Gary Gygax assembled in Appendix N, chances are good that most of the names at least are familiar, eve...

Here's what Volume I of OD&D has to say about elves as player characters: Elves can begin as either Fighting-Men or Magic-Users and ...

As another piece of the puzzle regarding rangers and their place in D&D , I offer up a lengthy quote from issue #66 of Dragon (October 1...

One of the things I really love about my Dwimmermount campaign is how readily my five players have all, to varying degrees, contributed to t...