Blogs were the tinder from which the fire of the Old School Renaissance was sparked. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, there was a genuine ...

I'm old , old enough to remember a time when the local game store was not merely a place to buy things. It was a crossroads, a hub for r...

Grognardia Plus by James Maliszewski Some Additional Thoughts about Anthologies Read on Substack

Published in 1983, module UK2, The Sentinel , is the first part of a two-module series written by Graeme Morris for Advanced Dungeons & ...

As I explained last week , the Ares Section of Dragon was an absolute favorite of mine during the period when I subscribed to the magazine....

Let’s keep this short and sweet: what do you think is the best introductory scenario ever written for a roleplaying game and why? At the end...

In discussing the possibility of roleplaying games being invented in another era , I soon found myself thinking more and more about the actu...

Despite having refereed roleplaying games for more than four decades, I still suffer from what can only be described as stage fright . It’s ...

The history of roleplaying games is, by now, well known, at least in broad outline. In the early 1970s, a handful of imaginative wargamers, ...

August marks the birth month of H.P. Lovecraft, whose peculiar vision has cast a long and often unsettling shadow over the realms of fantasy...