As I pen more posts for this series , you'll notice that many of its entries are themselves about series of articles from the pages of ...

I think it's fair to say that Gary Gygax had a very thin skin when it came to criticisms of the  Advanced Dungeons & Dragons  game l...

One of my favorite parts of the AD&D Players Handbook has always been Appendix IV: The Known Planes of Existence. Though it provides ver...

These rules are strictly fantasy Those wargamers who lack imagination, those who don't care for Burroughs' Martian adventures where ...

I was reading the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide this evening and I suddenly noticed something I hadn't before or, rather, something fin...

So, it appears that the latest session report of my Dwimmermount campaign has caused something of a stir, judging from my comments and emai...

The writing duo of Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp were, according to Gary Gygax, great influences on Dungeons & Dragons , particu...

Fletcher Pratt, the only author named twice in Appendix N of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide , was also a military historian and a wargam...

As further evidence for my thesis that L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt are important keys to understanding Gary Gygax's vision for...

The Blue Star is an alternate universe novel written by Fletcher Pratt in 1952. The cover to the left is of the Ballantine paperback editio...

Consistently cited by Gary Gygax as an inspiration for Dungeons & Dragons, L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's "Harold She...