This past weekend was CleriCon , a small game convention held in Glen Williams, Ontario, which is a little over 50 km outside Toronto. This ...

Today's post about "The Ecology of the Piercer" article got me wondering: have there ever been any miniatures of piercers? Tho...

By now, it's pretty widely recognized that Dungeons & Dragons  and, by extension, all roleplaying games ultimately descend from mini...

Another memorable Grenadier Models advertisement, this one appearing at the back of issue #64 of Dragon (August 1982).

Grenadier Models produced a line of historical miniatures under the name "Western Gunfighter" that were approved for use with TSR...

Back at the end of June, I wrote a post about the representation of bugbears in the various TSR editions of Dungeons & Dragons. My exam...

During the period between 1979 and 1982 when Grenadier Models held the license to produce official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons miniature...

Since last week we looked at lizard men , I thought it would make sense to examine troglodytes next, since they're both humanoid reptili...

Lizard men were introduced into Dungeons & Dragons in the pages of its first supplement, Greyhawk (1975). The first illustration of them...

The creation of Terry Kuntz, brother of Rob Kuntz, the beholder first appeared in Supplement I to OD&D, Greyhawk  in 1975. Since then, t...

One of my biggest complaints about  first edition Gamma World was that its rulebook included very few illustrations of its mutant creatures...

The people have spoken , which means I shall continue this series for a while longer. In reviewing the suggestions offered by readers, one o...