Since this blog could hardly be accused of intellectual rigor, I trust no one will object to my choosing the "Mutant Manual" as ...

Over at Advanced Grognardia , I've got another post in which I provide game stats and a description of "monsters" from my Tell...

Over at Advanced Grognardia , I've got another post in which I provide game stats and a description of a monster from my Telluria campa...

Over at  Advanced Grognardia , I've got a post in which I provide game stats and a description of a monster from my Telluria campaign s...

Over at Advanced Grognardia , I've offered up a small Christmas gift  in the form of a new version of an old monster  from the early day...

I'm sure it'll come as no surprise that issue #75 of Dragon (July 1983) is among my favorites, one I both remember very well (and fo...

The very first AD&D book I bought was the Monster Manual , which I acquired through a Sears catalog store using money my grandmother had...

Today's post about "The Ecology of the Piercer" article got me wondering: have there ever been any miniatures of piercers? Tho...

When issue #72 of Dragon (April 1983) was released, it contained, in addition to the usual assortment of not particularly funny April Fool...

Back at the end of June, I wrote a post about the representation of bugbears in the various TSR editions of Dungeons & Dragons. My exam...

I'm sure this will come as a great surprise to longtime readers of this blog that, as a young man, I was fairly serious and earnest . Sh...

Since last week we looked at lizard men , I thought it would make sense to examine troglodytes next, since they're both humanoid reptili...

Lizard men were introduced into Dungeons & Dragons in the pages of its first supplement, Greyhawk (1975). The first illustration of them...

The creation of Terry Kuntz, brother of Rob Kuntz, the beholder first appeared in Supplement I to OD&D, Greyhawk  in 1975. Since then, t...

The people have spoken , which means I shall continue this series for a while longer. In reviewing the suggestions offered by readers, one o...