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

One of the (many) fascinating things about Boot Hill is that its presentation is quite different from TSR's other RPGs of similar vinta...

I've been re-reading the second edition of  Boot Hill recently. There's a lot in it that I'd forgotten and that I think worthy ...

Way back in issue #11 of Dragon (December 1977), a new column appeared entitled "From the Sorcerer's Scroll." This was the ima...

Having last week come to the defense of the murderhobo , I thought I'd go one step further this week by doing something similar for outr...

A topic that I think is worthy of further discussion is the extent to which the contemporary "old school" RPG scene is characteriz...

After more than 300 posts in this series , it's often difficult to come up with an appropriately interesting subject for each week's...

In a change of pace, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at a section from AD&D 's Deities & Deimgods. On page 11 ...

In the past, I've written about D&D products that were announced or referenced but that, for whatever reason, never came to pass. ...

Yesterday, I received the following announcement: The announcement contains links to two of the parties involved: TLB Games  and  Legends of...

No, I haven't gone insane. Yes, I realize that's a very odd question, but I think it's a question worth exploring. When Dungeons...

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

I've never been much of a fan of Deities & Demigods , though I owned it, of course. Why wouldn't I? I have always had decidedly ...

Yesterday, Black Blade Publishing made the following announcement: Black Blade Publishing is proud to announce an agreement with Robert J. ...

As some of you may be aware, Rob Kuntz conceived of a new award, the Three Castles Award (so named after Castles Blackmoor, Greyhawk, and El...

Like its OD&D predecessor , I have decidedly negative feelings about 1980's Deities & Demigods . Certainly my friends and I purc...

Rob Kuntz's Pied Piper Publishing is getting ready to publish a new product line called Dungeon Sets , the first two examples of which w...

Here's another perspective on the present and future of wargames . It's also a few years old, but was written more recently than Gre...

Fantasy has always embodied the spirit of impossibilities come to life and the ability to interact within a fictional strangeness, and somet...

I knew my blog would pay off for me one day and so it has at long last. I've been invited to join a group blog hosted by Pied Piper Publ...