4. Were you ever formally an employee of Chaosium or were you simply a freelance writer and designer for the company? I was never an employe...

A long-standing and popular feature of this blog has been its interviews with designers, artists, and other luminaries of the hobby. From t...

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 ...

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

 As you can probably guess from my recent post about combat in Secrets of sha-Arthan , I've been re-reading RuneQuest and other Basic R...

(This month, I'd intended to write a longer post about the domestication of horror and frightening things in our popular media, includin...

Issue #75 of White Dwarf (March 1986) sports a horror – or I should I say Call of Cthulhu ? – themed cover by Lee Gibbons, whose work appear...

Issue #65 of White Dwarf (May 1985) features a cover by Chris Achilleos derived from a painting that had previously been used in a Fighting ...

Issue #64 of White Dwarf (April 1985) features a cover by Peter Andrew Jones that, as so many previous covers of the magazine have, mixes el...

Issue #59 of White Dwarf (November 1984), with its cover by Peter Andrew Jones, is another issue I remember well, since it was published dur...

Issue #58 of White Dwarf (October 1984) has a terrific cover by Chris Achilleos, an artist whose work I've long appreciated. Ian Livings...

Four years ago today, Greg Stafford, creator of Glorantha and one of the founders of Chaosium, passed into the eternity of the Gods World. I...

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...