I'm going to cheat for today's installment of this series. Rather than focusing on a single article from issue #84 of Dragon (April ...

Issue #61 of White Dwarf (January 1985) has a very strange cover by Chris Achilleos. I'm not sure if the armored bird (?) man with a whi...

Issue #25 of White Dwarf (June/July 1981) features a cover by Fiend Folio cover artist, Emmanuel. In addition, Emmanuel provides all of the...

When it came to "adventures among the stars" science fiction roleplaying games, Traveller was my preference. Consequently, FGU...

I've talked about Space Opera and its kitchen sink setting in several posts previously, but what I don't think I've ever talke...

One of the first products released to support FGU's Space Opera was an adventure module entitled Martigan Belt . It was published in 19...

I've highlighted ads for Fantasy Games Unlimited RPGs before, but this one, from issue #82 (February 1984) is particularly memorable in ...

When I entered the hobby, if you played a science fiction game, you either played Traveller or Space Opera . I was a Traveller man back then...

I make no bones about the fact that, for me, David C. Sutherland III ranks up there with David Trampier and Erol Otus as one of my favorite ...

Before moving on to the point of this entry, let me clarify something about yesterday's "Strange Dream" entry . The skill syst...

I didn't sleep well last night, which is usually when I have weird dreams. I had a number of them in fact, but one in particular stayed ...

When I think of Space Opera , I think of this cover by Bob Charrette, because it's the cover I remember seeing back in the early 80s whe...