One of the most curious contradictions at the heart of our shared hobby is the tension between creativity and consumption , a topic I'v...

Back in March, I wrote a post about an interesting section of the original (1975) edition of Tunnels & Trolls that I found quite intere...

As a general rule, I avoid reviewing any products with which I have even a slight association, but I am going to make an exception in the ca...

I'm still a bit swamped with various things besides the blog, but I've also been cogitating about a big post I plan to make over the...

Shortly before the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide was published, Gary Gygax wrote an article in The Dragon in which ...

I'm done teasing ; time to reveal all. One of the constant themes of this blog is the curse of "brandification," the eventua...

In light of the rather unexpected level of response to my post yesterday about the 4e paladin, I realized that I ought to do a post about wh...

As I've mentioned on many occasions, I began playing D&D in late 1979 with the Basic Set edited by J. Eric Holmes rather than eith...

Points of Light , written by Robert Conley and Dwayne Gillingham, packs more old school goodness in its 48 pages than any product published ...

I believe I've mentioned on more than one occasion that my introduction to Dungeons & Dragons came in the form of the boxed edition ...

Here's a really neat site: PlaGMADA , which stands for "play generated map and document archive." It's a site devoted to a...

Here's a scan of a small section of a much larger map I did for my old campaign world of Emaindor. I drew -- and colored! -- this by han...

Welcome to Eldritch Weirdness, the first booklet of Options and Resources for the Swords & Wizardry game, containing 30 optional spells ...