After spending last week’s Retrospective criticizing Shadowdale ,  the product intended to help transition the Forgotten Realms AD&D s...

I'm just a few years shy of having played, in one form or another,  Dungeons & Dragons for half a century (yes, I am old). In all th...

I have some muddled thoughts about publishing, old school esthetics, and related matters over Grognardia Games Direct .  Neither Primitive N...

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath was one of the first stories by H.P. Lovecraft I ever read and it baffled me. It baffled me not because...

A few weeks ago, one of my readers sent me a link to an old article from 2017 about the difficulties of playing Dungeons & Dragons behin...

Since I alluded in yesterday’s post to a shift in how TSR approached the Forgotten Realms, it seems worthwhile to examine the point at whic...

I may be mistaken in this, but I don't believe I've ever featured an adventure in any of my previous entries in The Articles of Drag...

Recently, several readers sent me a link to this article , heralding the possible demise of mass market paperback books, a format near and d...

H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Strange High House in the Mist” is a restrained yet quietly affecting tale, often grouped with his Dunsanian or Drea...

I pass… but in this lone and crumbling tower, Builded against the burrowing seas of chaos, My volumes and my philtres shall abide: Poisons m...