When I think of my "perfect" SF RPG setting, GDW's Third Imperium setting for Traveller almost always comes immediately to min...

I'm not, as most of you probably know, a player of Troll Lord Games's Castles & Crusades , but I retain a fondness for it, as it...

One of the things that might have become apparent in reading my Dwimmermount posts is that, in any given session, there are comparatively fe...

It's pretty well known, I think, that Sandy Petersen and Lynn Willis's roleplaying masterpiece, Call of Cthulhu , was in fact the se...

When last we left Fortune's Fools, they were puzzling out the meaning of a magical device that seemed to hold the key to their passage f...

Some will no doubt quibble over my inclusion of Philip Nowlan's 1928 novella, first published in the August issue of Amazing Stories , i...

It's been remarked before -- and not without reason -- that Traveller 's little black books mimic the little brown books of OD&D...

I'm home again and digging my way through several hundred emails, comments, and other communications. Good to see that the world didn...

This being Friday the 13th, I thought I'd ask about superstitions and taboos in your campaign settings. Do you have them and, if so, do ...

I'm away from home till sometime late on Saturday and likely won't have Net access while I'm gone, so there'll be no new pos...