I've known Mike Mearls for a long time. We both toiled in the freelancer salt mines back in the late '90s and early 2000s, but Mike ...

"Didn't James already do a Retrospective on Call of Cthulhu ?" After four hundred posts in this series – this one is, in fac...

Virgil Finlay's depiction of Lovecraft as an 18th century gentleman Since its initial publication in 1981, the default setting of Call o...

I've mentioned before that I'm really quite fascinated by the concept of solo roleplaying games and solitaire adventures . I don...

One of first things I wanted to do with the The Shadow over August series was to interview roleplaying game designers and creators who'...

... what's the general opinion of its current (7th) edition , especially among long-time players?  As I've explained many times befo...

I was recently asked for some advice from a younger Call of Cthulhu Keeper who wishes to introduce the game to newcomers to both the game an...

I think anyone who's been deeply involved in the hobby of roleplaying games for any length of time will eventually come across a game wi...

Last month , I mentioned that, because of the extended absence of a player in my ongoing Dolmenwood campaign, one of the other players offe...

As I mentioned at the start of the month , my ongoing Dolmenwood campaign is on a short hiatus while one of the players is away traveling. ...

When RuneQuest burst upon the roleplaying game scene in 1978, it quickly became known for both its percentile-based skill system (which woul...

I've been an admirer of Chaosium boxed sets for a long time and consider many of them to be among the best RPG products ever released. ...

"Dragon's Augury" was the name given to Dragon  magazine's recurring review section. At the time I first encountered it, ...

When it comes to venerable roleplaying game systems, the percentile skill-driven one first introduced in 1978's  RuneQuest   is unquesti...