I must confess it still baffles me that, even after all these years, the nature of the Old School Renaissance remains a matter of contention...

It's no secret that, when it comes to RPGs, I have a fairly narrow range of interests. In my younger days, the Holy Trinity consisted ...

As I've said before, I'm not now and never really was a reader of comics, but even I can't escape the buzz emanating from DC Com...

As long-time readers of this blog already know, I'm not a big fan of the current direction of Dungeons & Dragons , an opinion I'...

A couple of people have pointed me toward a post by ex-WotC designer Charles Ryan on the " D&D UK" group , where he includes a...

Enough people have been sending me emails and otherwise asking me to give my thoughts on the news that Wizards of the Coast is releasing a s...

Never let it be said that I don't occasionally have kind words for Wizards of the Coast. According to this press release , the next camp...

Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games has weighed in on the topic of how well the current edition of Dungeons & Dragons is doing from his per...

Clark Peterson of Necromancer Games has posted an update to his company's forums , where he discusses the current state of the company ...

In a post over at the Necromancer Games forum , Clark "Orcus" Peterson indicated his interest in creating what might be called a ...

In light of the rather unexpected level of response to my post yesterday about the 4e paladin, I realized that I ought to do a post about wh...

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, because I certainly hope I am: can a paladin fall in 4e? As I read it, there's no possibili...

I'll say this much: the section of the 4e Dungeon Masters Guide pertaining to puzzles is well done and broadly consonant with old school...

One of the refrains one often hears in reference to why D&D has changed in the way it has is that older editions demanded too much of th...

It’s my contention that the first super adventure was a slim, 28-page module called Dwellers of the Forbidden City , published by TSR, Inc.,...

Say what you will about the Third Edition of Dungeons & Dragons itself -- and I have -- but I cannot countenance anyone complaining abou...

I'm in the midst of preparing another series of cover critiques, this time of the Monster Manual covers. In reading the 4e MM, two quest...

I make no bones about the fact that I rather strongly disliked the cover of the Fourth Edition Players Handbook , both stylistically and in ...

And so we reach the end of my retrospective about the covers of the D&D Players Handbook with this entry. Before diving in to talk spec...

Yesterday, the Game System License for the new edition of Dungeons & Dragons was released . I honestly didn't think we'd ever se...