The late Jean Wells  inaugurated the first "Sage Advice" column in issue #31 (November 1979) of The Dragon. About the purpose of t...

In the early 1970s, DC Comics acquired the rights to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tales, resulting in a very short lived bi...

Jeff Grubb worked at TSR Hobbies from 1982 to 1994. During that time he served as the design consultant on Gary Gygax's  Monster Manual...

The summer of 1978 was a momentous one for TSR. At the Origins Game Fair, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on July 13–16, the company released Ga...

When I was a child, I owned a copy of the  Marvel Treasury Special adaptation  of  2001  by Jack Kirby. I can't recall how I acquired it...

I wrote about the early game company Wee Warriors once before, in a retrospective about their first publication,  Palace of the Vampire Quee...

After yesterday's post , I was reminded that The Howling Tower is also the name of Arduin Dungeon #2, published in 1979 by Grimoire Game...

The question of which works of literary fantasy most strongly evoke the experience of playing Dungeons & Dragons (and, by extension, all...

What did I just read? That was my immediate thought after attempting – and failing – to read Free League ’s apocalyptic fantasy roleplaying ...

Issue #6 of Imagine dates from September 1983 and features cover art by Emmanuel, who's probably best known in D&D circles for hav...