Despite the fact that David Cook's 1981 adventure, Dwellers of the Forbidden City , is one of my favorite D&D modules of all time, i...

I've written before about my affection for Arthur Collins , who wrote a couple dozen or so articles in the pages of Dragon  during the p...

H. P. Lovecraft’s “What the Moon Brings” is another very short work and, though imperfect in many respects, it nonetheless offers a concent...

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...

First published in the May 1923 issue of The National Amateur , H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “Hypnos” is one of his more obscure works, sel...

Commentary by James Maliszewski Thinking about Presentation of a Different Sort Read on Substack

I was recently reminded by a reader of the assertion that, rather than harming the sales or long-term fortunes of Dungeons & Dragons , ...

I'm presently finishing work on a long essay about ten works of "forgotten fantasy" – stories I consider to have been influent...

Three sessions into my new Metamorphosis Alpha campaign – which I've dubbed "Habitat" – my players and I have now had the cha...