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...

As a kid, I was endlessly fascinated by  AD&D 's Gygaxian cosmology of the planes of existence, especially the so-called Lower Plane...

I was a huge fan of Part I of Ed Greenwood’s “The Nine Hells,” so it was almost inevitable that I’d be just as taken with Part II. Publishe...

(The original post appeared here .) And so we come, once again, to an excellent article written by Ed Greenwood – "The Nine Hells, Part...

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

When I first acquired the AD&D Players Handbook – this was sometime in early 1980 – one of my favorite sections was Apprendix IV: The Kn...

Ed Greenwood catches a lot of grief among a certain segment of the old school community, usually for things for which he was not himself re...

When I was a kid, the idea of mixing magic and technology was (largely) blasphemous. For some reason, it offended my youthful sensibilities,...

The creation of Terry Kuntz, brother of Rob Kuntz, the beholder first appeared in Supplement I to OD&D, Greyhawk  in 1975. Since then, t...

I have a complicated relationship with humor in roleplaying games. I unreservedly celebrate games like Paranoia and Toon   that are explici...

 Among the many monsters whose origins can definitively be linked to Dungeons & Dragons  is the shapeshifting mimic , which first appear...