I know that, for many fans of old-school Dungeons & Dragons , Ed Greenwood ’s Forgotten Realms represents a decisive (and unwelcome) bre...

Let's begin by making a clarification. This week's Retrospective concerns the AD&D Second Edition boxed set released by TSR in ...

After spending last week’s Retrospective criticizing Shadowdale ,  the product intended to help transition the Forgotten Realms AD&D s...

Since I alluded in yesterday’s post to a shift in how TSR approached the Forgotten Realms, it seems worthwhile to examine the point at whic...

I may be mistaken in this, but I don't believe I've ever featured an adventure in any of my previous entries in The Articles of Drag...

One of many things that doesn't always come through in my campaign update posts are the little moments of roleplaying and character deve...

Last week,a reader had some interesting things to say in the comments to my post, "Now Make It YOUR Tékumel" (Part I) : James, I ...

Like his "Pages from the Mages," Ed Greenwood's "Seven Swords" from issue #74 of Dragon (June 1983) is an article I...

I'm a sucker for historical fantasy – or even just fantasy that's heavily inspired by a particular historical period, society, or cu...

I remember being very excited about the imminent release of the Oriental Adventures   in 1985 . Aside from the obvious reason – the introduc...

Despite my preference for playing RPGs with a group of friends, I've long enjoyed video and computer games. In fact, over the past Chris...

While I unqualifiedly count myself as a fan of the articles Ed Greenwood wrote about his home campaign, the Forgotten Realms, in the pages o...

My late childhood and early teen years coincided not just with the ascent of fantasy and science fiction in popular media but with the (like...

I mentioned, in last week's retrospective on The Grand Duchy of Karameikos , that I didn't own many modules in the D&D Gazettee...