The response to my two-part interview with Rudy Kraft at the start of the month was very well received, generating a lot of comments and e...

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...

I’ve often said I feel fortunate to have discovered Dungeons & Dragons when I did, before the dead hand of brandification settled over...

 A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that, after so many years of refereeing Empire of the Petal Throne , I found myself  craving a vanilla f...

In my youth, I didn't have a lot of direct experience with Judges Guild products. Aside from the Wilderlands of High Fantasy , I can pro...

As I'm sure readers of this blog already know, "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" was the name of Gary Gygax's regular colum...

Does anyone remember this Judges Guild advertisement? It appeared in issue #80 (December 1983) of Dragon . A quick search online reveals tha...

Issue #18 of White Dwarf (April/May 1980) features an unusual cover image: a color still of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek: The Moti...

Issue #17 of White Dwarf (February/March 1980) features a science fictional cover by Angus McKie. In my memory, one of the things that disti...

Issue #14 of White Dwarf  (August/September 1979) sports an unusual cover by Emmanuel, best known for the iconic cover of the Fiend Folio . ...

Issue #7 of White Dwarf  (June/July 1978) represents something of a milestone for the British gaming periodical. Firstly, it marks the start...

Issue #3 of White Dwarf is dated October/November 1977 and features cover art by Alan Hunter, who did a number of illustrations in the Fiend...

I've talked about my experiences with White Dwarf before. It's a RPG magazine that I only read intermittently back in the day and s...

In the early days of the Old School Renaissance, one would regularly read effusive praise for Judges Guild. I think that's completely un...

Issue #14 of Different Worlds (September 1981) opens with "Judges Guild and D&D " by Patrick Amory. This is an unusual article...

Issue #9 (August/September 1980) of Different Worlds features a quite striking cover by Luise Perrine that seems to tie into an article appe...

Men & Magic , Volume I of original Dungeons & Dragons , in a section entitled "Preparation for the Campaign," rather famou...