Allow me to mention – once again – that, while fantasy is without question the genre of RPG I've spent the most time refereeing and play...

First published in the July 1943 issue of  Weird Tales , Robert Bloch’s “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” remains one of the author’s most fam...

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 ...

Between early exposure to televised coverage of NASA launches and constant reruns of Star Trek , it was almost inevitable that I would beco...

In the comments to last week's Retrospective  about Trader Captains and Merchant Princes  for FASA's Star Trek the Role Playing Game...

FASA's Star Trek the Role Playing Game   was one of my favorite RPGs in my youth, eclipsing even Traveller in my affections, if you can ...

Issue #24 of Polyhedron  (July 1985), with its cover illustration by Roger Raupp, is another one I remember very clearly from my youth – and...

Issue #21 of Polyhedron (January 1985) features a cover illustration by Timothy Truman, who produced a lot of artwork for TSR throughout the...

Being a Star Trek fan, I was aware of the fact that, sometime during the early stages of the production of 1979's  Star Trek: The Motion...

I've mentioned before that Star Trek  was my first fandom . If you were a kid with an interest in science fiction in the early 1970s, th...

Within a few years of my entrance into the hobby, my friends and I were playing a wide range of different RPGs. Dungeons & Dragons remai...

Issue #77 of White Dwarf (May 1986) features an immediately recognizable cover illustration by Chris Achilleos. The image is probably best-k...

Issue #74 of White Dwarf (February 1986) sports a cover by American conic book artist, Frank Brunner, who's probably best known for his ...

Unbelievably, today marks the 92nd birthday of William Shatner, whom I – and likely everyone else – will forever remember for his portrayal ...

Part I of this list can be found here .  5. Star Trek the Role Playing Game Star Trek is my original fandom. I started watching the Original...