Heads-up: over the coming weeks and months, you'll be seeing a lot of posts about articles that appeared in the Ares Section  of Dragon....

Issue #51 of White Dwarf (March 1984) features a cover by Iain McCaig, an artist many will know from his work in the film industry, as well ...

Issue #34 of White Dwarf (October 1982) features a cover by Emmanuel, the artist responsible for the cover of the Fiend Folio . Although it...

Issue #12 of White Dwarf  (April/May 1979) features a cover by Eddie Jones, who had previously done the cover for issue #10 . According to I...

When it came to "adventures among the stars" science fiction roleplaying games, Traveller was my preference. Consequently, FGU...

Issue #8 of White Dwarf  (August/September 1978) features a very striking cover by Derek Hayes . The story depicts a scene from Rowland Flyn...

I I've never been a huge fan of superheroes. As a kid, I liked them well enough, but my interest in them paled in comparison to fantasy ...

Issue #5 of White Dwarf (February/March 1978) features a cover by Polly Wilson. Ian Livingstone's editorial is about copyright laws and ...

Issue #3 of White Dwarf is dated October/November 1977 and features cover art by Alan Hunter, who did a number of illustrations in the Fiend...

Issue #19 of Different Worlds (February 1982) is filled with tentacles, starting with its cover by Roland Brown. Inside, many of its article...

Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo is an unusual game. Released in 1977 by Fantasy Games Unlimited, it was written by Scott Bizar and ...

Issue #5 of Different Worlds (October/November 1979), featuring a cover by Tom Clark, begins with an editorial by Tadashi Ehara in which he ...

Looking back on my early introduction to the hobby of roleplaying, one of the things that strikes me is how many RPGs available at the time ...

Issue #28 of Imagine (July 1985) is another "special" issue, in this case "pulps." I try not to be too judgmental on thi...

Normally, when I speak of Chivalry & Sorcery , I'm talking about boxed second edition of the game, which was released in 1983. Tha...

Receiving my POD copy of Metamorphosis Alpha this week got me to wonder: how many old school RPGs are currently available in unadulterated p...

I've talked about Space Opera and its kitchen sink setting in several posts previously, but what I don't think I've ever talke...