When I first shifted the focus of my Retrospective posts toward classic Traveller , I hadn't consciously decided to look at those adven...

A common early complaint about Dungeons & Dragons  was that the game's three little brown books failed to provide much in the way of...

Most people who read this blog are probably already familiar with the Bundle of Holding , which offers limited-time sales of tabletop RPGs i...

It's well known that, in populating the bestiary of Dungeons & Dragons , Arneson and Gygax regularly looked beyond mythology and fol...

Russ Nicholson , the artist whose illustrations contributed greatly to the overall vibe of the Fiend Folio , has died. News of his death beg...

A mighty-thewed barbarian, courtesy of the incomparable Russ Nicholson ( White Dwarf #49). 

Issue #32 of White Dwarf (August 1982) is both the very first monthly issue of the magazine and the first issue I ever owned. I bought it wh...

Issue #16 of White Dwarf (December/January 1979/1980) features a remarkable cover by Les Edwards. Edwards did a lot of cover illustrations f...

Issue #12 of White Dwarf  (April/May 1979) features a cover by Eddie Jones, who had previously done the cover for issue #10 . According to I...

Resting on a shelf atop my desk are, among other things, my Advanced Dungeons & Dragons hardcover book collection. Most of them are abou...

The ever-amazing Russ Nicholson just completed a piece of artwork for Dwimmermount, depicting two ghouls -- technically, ghasts -- from the...