There is a particular kind of emotion that, in my experience, is easily forgotten in our world of algorithms and explanations but that once ...

Something I find myself reflecting on more and more as I grow older is just how odd so many of the people I gamed with in my youth were. I ...

His name wasn’t really Bob, but I’m calling him that for the purposes of this post, on the extremely unlikely chance that he’s still out the...

As you’ve probably guessed from the kinds of posts I’ve been writing lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how the hobby has changed, not j...

Blogs were the tinder from which the fire of the Old School Renaissance was sparked. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, there was a genuine ...

I'm old , old enough to remember a time when the local game store was not merely a place to buy things. It was a crossroads, a hub for r...

One of the things that's easy to forget in our hyper-connected age is how we used to discover new roleplaying games in the days before t...

This being the only Friday the 13th of 2025, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to muse a little about the spooky stuff I grew up with ...

Among the many delights of flipping through issues of Dragon magazine from my youth is getting the chance to see Dave Trampier's Wormy ...

A family member recently returned from an extended trip abroad and our conversation about her experiences got me thinking about the strange ...

Apologies in advance for the poor quality of this image, but it was the best I could find. It's the second page of a two-page advertisem...

That's a lot of hyphens! This advertisement, which appeared in issue #114 of Dragon (October 1986) was the first time I'd heard that...

Another preview of the Silver Age appears in issue #80 (December 1983) of Dragon , in the article "How Many Coins in a Coffer?" b...

Between early exposure to televised coverage of NASA launches and constant reruns of Star Trek , it was almost inevitable that I would beco...

If the results of my poll back in October are any indication, nearly two-thirds of my regular readership entered the hobby within the first...

As I've said innumerable times since I started this blog, I was never a wargamer . I didn’t have shelves stocked with hex maps or spend...

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about "off shelf" campaign settings , I thought I'd write a bit about a related topic: ...