Having last week come to the defense of the murderhobo , I thought I'd go one step further this week by doing something similar for outr...

During the nearly eight years this blog was inactive, I wasn't paying nearly as much attention to the wider old school roleplaying scene...

With issue #79 of White Dwarf (July 1986), I reach the penultimate issue I'll cover in this series. Though I'm glad to have done it ...

Issue #77 of White Dwarf (May 1986) features an immediately recognizable cover illustration by Chris Achilleos. The image is probably best-k...

William Church's map of Prax from the second edition of Chaosium's RuneQuest  remains one of my favorite RPG maps ever . The other d...

I don't think it's much of an exaggeration to suggest that the covers of science fiction and fantasy novels have gotten much less im...

Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné is unquestionably one of the greatest characters in all of fantasy literature. The stories of his ...

Though the character of Elric of Melniboné is perhaps best known from the novelettes and novellas in which he appears, like " The Dream...

Issue #33 of White Dwarf (September 1982) features a strangely compelling cover by Andrew George. I'm honestly not sure what it's su...

Whatever else one can say about Michael Moorcock's tales of albino sorcerer Elric of Melniboné, there's no question that they're...

I don't usually write about the letters column of Different Worlds  for a number of reasons. However, in the case of i ssue #21 (June 19...

I owe a huge debt to the public library not far from my childhood home, because it was very well stocked with fantasy and science fiction pa...

Like most native English speakers, I've generally been quite ignorant of fantasy and science fiction outside of my own linguistic bubble...

 Issue #22 of Imagine  (January 1985) fittingly features a cover by Rodney Matthews entitled "Earl Aubec." I say fittingly, as thi...

I've never been much of a fan of Deities & Demigods , though I owned it, of course. Why wouldn't I? I have always had decidedly ...

Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné has appeared in many comics over the years, most of them more or less straight adaptations of his ...