Though not my original intention , apparently I am going to be writing more posts about the stories that gave birth to the characters descri...

The trouble with Muses is that, ultimately, they're in control , not you. As I continue to work on the second edition of Thousand Suns –...

Today, I make good on a promise I made two weeks ago to write a retrospective on the other adventure included in GDW’s Double Adventure 3 ...

I'm sure it'll come as no surprise, given my recent posts here and over on my Substack , that I'm in a decidedly science fiction...

GDW's Traveller is justifably lauded for the wealth of tools it provided the referee in generating his own adventures, such as procedure...

I'd hoped to have something Halloween-y to post, but the only scare you get today is my face, when Marc Miller, creator of Traveller , k...

Last night, a friend shared with me his "rebuttal" to my recent assertion that Traveller was "obviously" the best scienc...

As I explained last week , the Ares Section of Dragon was an absolute favorite of mine during the period when I subscribed to the magazine....

 I subscribed to Dragon from issue #68 (December 1982) till #127 (November 1987). During that five-year period, my favorite section of the m...

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 ...

When GDW released Traveller in 1977, it stood apart from other roleplaying games of the time in several important ways. Most notably, it wa...

By the time Alien Module 7: Hivers was published in 1986, the Traveller role-playing game was approaching its tenth anniversary. Game Desi...

The last Interstellar War between the Vilani Ziru Sirka and the Terran Confederation – dubbed by historians the Nth Interstellar War , beca...

In my discussions of GDW’s other science fiction roleplaying game, 2300AD , I’ve often mentioned that, when it was initially released under...

One of the most distinctive features of Traveller is its embrace of systems and procedures that actively generate adventure, rather than me...

One of the fascinating aspects of early RPGs is how they slowly formalized the logic of play. Dungeons & Dragons may have established t...

In Parts I and II of this series, I laid out some of the principles and practices that have helped me successfully referee several long-ru...