I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that, for all the fanfare that accompanied the publication of  issue #100 of Dragon  (August 1985) , it ne...

Issue #100 of Dragon (August 1985) was a milestone for the periodical, as well as for me. For the magazine, it was a portentous number ...

Today, I'm being doubly cheeky. First and most obviously, I've decided to dub today's post an entry in the previously non-existe...

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

I'm just a few years shy of having played, in one form or another,  Dungeons & Dragons for half a century (yes, I am old). In all th...

Today marks the birthday of Abraham Merritt, an early twentieth-century writer whose work I have long championed on this blog . That advocac...

This post is not, strictly speaking, a Retrospective , since I've already done one on Tom Moldvay's 1981 module, Castle Amber – two...

I strongly considered not writing a post about this particular article from issue #95 of Dragon (March 1985), since I know it’s likely to s...

For a lot of old school AD&D players, the appearance of Unearthed Arcana in 1985 marked the end of an era. Filled with a wide variety...

I've written many times about the origins of this blog, including just a few months ago . A major component of Grognardia's genesis ...

Over the years, I've given the thief a lot of flak, but it's actually the cleric who fits in least well with the literary origins of...

Issue #90 (October 1984) of Dragon contained a short installment of Gary Gygax's increasingly irregular "From the Sorceror's [s...

1. How did you first discover the works of H.P. Lovecraft and what was it about his writing that captivated you? Greetings, James, and thank...

E. Gary Gygax died on March 4, 2008, at the age of 69. Just over three weeks later, this blog published its first post . That was no coincid...

In discussing the possibility of roleplaying games being invented in another era , I soon found myself thinking more and more about the actu...

Like its predecessors, Steading of the Hill Giant Chief and The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl , Hall of the Fire Giant King (AD...