I'm on record as disliking the general approach to religion and gods Dungeons & Dragons has taken since the beginning . I've alw...

Fanzines are of particular importance to the history and development of roleplaying games and have, in recent years, enjoyed a welcome resur...

Over the years I've written this blog, I don't think I've devoted much space to the adventures that have appeared in the pages o...

In honor of The Shadow over August , I thought I'd do something a little different with my weekly "The Articles of Dragon" ser...

No one should mistake my many misgivings about Deities & Demigods  for a disdain for its subject matter. On the contrary, I've long ...

Of all the iconic classes of D&D , the cleric is the one that sticks out like a sore thumb. Whereas the fighting man, the magic-user, an...

"Setting Saintly Standards" from issue #79 (November 1983) exemplifies two of the worst aspects of D&D : a mania for quantifyi...

When I was in the seventh grade, I won first prize at my school's science fair and so was sent, along with a classmate, who'd won se...

In my younger days, I was a big fan of The World of Greyhawk  setting, for reasons I've discussed in other posts on this blog. Sometime ...

Issue #67 of Dragon (November 1982) is another one featuring more than one article that made a lasting impression on me. The first of these ...

I think it's fair to say that Gary Gygax had a very thin skin when it came to criticisms of the  Advanced Dungeons & Dragons  game l...

Issue #13 of Polyhedron (August 1983) is dubbed a "special issue," because, in the words of its editor, Mary Kirchoff, more "...

In the early days of the OSR, a common topic of discussion was D&D 's endgame. Both OD&D and AD&D assume that player charact...

I've regularly remarked on this blog that  Dungeons & Dragons  (and, by extension, most fantasy roleplaying games, with a few notabl...

I've never been very fond of Deities & Demigods , though, being a TSR fanboy , I nevertheless dutifully purchased it. In my youth, t...

Kulvu is a word in the ancient Onha language with many meanings: balance, harmony, law, nature, order, and reason. Some three centuries bef...