Part I can be found here . 5. JTAS #13 Cover The Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society was GDW's in-house periodical for supportin...

Before I start, a couple of caveats and explanations. First, you'll note that I say "images," not "illustrations." T...

Twilight: 2000 , especially in its current Free League version, is very much a game of hexcrawling . The characters spend a great deal of ti...

It's yet 2025 yet and I've already started to make good on two resolutions for the new year: to post more (though not exclusively) a...

I mentioned in yesterday's post about  my favorite science fiction roleplaying game map  that Traveller 's star maps are two-dimensi...

Long ago, at the dawn of this blog, I declared Darlene 's exquisite map of The World of Greyhawk to be "the best map ever."  ...

In the comments to last week's post about The Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Coloring Album , an anonymous poster theorizes t...

Dave Hargrave's The Arduin Grimoire  (1977) and its two immediate sequels, Welcome to Skull Tower and The Runes of Doom (1978), are impo...

Like a lot of gamers, I've long had a bad case of cartophilia. Truth be told, my love of maps predates my involvement in the hobby of ro...

Issue #12 of Polyhedron (June 1983) features a very striking cover by Larry Elmore that depicts a pegasus-riding warrior about to engage a r...

Though progress continues to be quite a bit slower than I'd like – due, in large part, to my constant tinkering – Secrets of sha-Arthan...

As I mentioned recently , I'm trying to put together a map for Secrets of sha-Arthan . I've already got a continental outline for th...

I've mentioned before that Star Trek  was my first fandom . If you were a kid with an interest in science fiction in the early 1970s, th...

Here's the thing: I am preparing a regional map for my sha-Arthan setting and I must confess that I am having some difficulty in settli...

Roleplaying games set in the past of the real world, whether played straight or including an element of the fantastical, have always been ha...

William Church's map of Prax from the second edition of Chaosium's RuneQuest  remains one of my favorite RPG maps ever . The other d...

Much as I adore the incomparable map of the Flanaess from the World of Greyhawk  – perhaps the best RPG map ever – over the last few years ...

Last month, I mentioned that I'd be participating in Dungeon23 , a challenge to create a 12-level, 365-room megadungeon one room at a ti...

Thanks to Traveller Map When Traveller first appeared in 1977, GDW's  game of science fiction adventure in the far future followed the m...

When I first heard about  Dungeons & Dragons , an aspect of the game that both fascinated and confused me was that it didn't have a ...