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Last month , I mentioned that, because of the extended absence of a player in my ongoing Dolmenwood campaign, one of the other players offe...

When RuneQuest burst upon the roleplaying game scene in 1978, it quickly became known for both its percentile-based skill system (which woul...

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

A True Revelation of the Great Virginia Disastrum, 1633  (hereafter Disastrum ) by Ezra Claverie may well be the definitive product for Lame...

By the mid-1990s, I'd had regular access to the Internet for a number of years and it was great. Forums and websites dedicated to RPGs o...

The first few years of the Old School Renaissance were marked by a renewed appreciation not just of early roleplaying games but also of the...

When it comes to venerable roleplaying game systems, the percentile skill-driven one first introduced in 1978's  RuneQuest   is unquesti...

There were two great obsessions at the dawn of the Old School Renaissance: megadungeons and sandboxes. Each was a distinctive element of man...

An aspect of Dungeons & Dragons – and, by extension, all fantasy roleplaying games – that I find equally fascinating and frustrating is ...

Allow me to say once again, as I always do, that I am a huge fan of historical fantasy. From what I can tell, my fondness for it is unusual,...

When I first read  Astonishing Swords & Sorcerers of Hyperborea , two things about it greatly impressed me. Most significant was that th...

During the nearly eight years this blog was inactive, I wasn't paying nearly as much attention to the wider old school roleplaying scene...