I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that, for all the fanfare that accompanied the publication of  issue #100 of Dragon  (August 1985) , it ne...

For good or for ill, my interest in the history of the hobby of roleplaying is intertwined with my interest in the history of the industry t...

I've no doubt mentioned on numerous occasions that, as a kid, I was never a big reader of comic books – at least not  superhero comic bo...

Let's begin by making a clarification. This week's Retrospective concerns the AD&D Second Edition boxed set released by TSR in ...

After spending last week’s Retrospective criticizing Shadowdale ,  the product intended to help transition the Forgotten Realms AD&D s...

Since I alluded in yesterday’s post to a shift in how TSR approached the Forgotten Realms, it seems worthwhile to examine the point at whic...

Because I’m focusing this month’s posts on the life, works, and legacy of Clark Ashton Smith, I’ve been trying to find roleplaying game pro...

Multiple sources report that Tim Kask, TSR’s first full-time employee, died on December 30 at the age of 76 after a short illness.  Although...

Despite the fact that David Cook's 1981 adventure, Dwellers of the Forbidden City , is one of my favorite D&D modules of all time, i...

Since I recently started refereeing Metamorphosis Alpha , I've been thinking a lot about the game and its history. This inevitably led m...

I have a lot of experience with  Gamma World . primarily its first edition , though I refereed a lot of second edition too. Consequently, m...

(Because I've started refereeing a Metamorphosis Alpha campaign this week, I have a number of posts planned in which I share my thought...

Despite my well known gripes about the lasting impact of Tracy Hickman on the development of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (and, by exten...

When TSR released Star Frontiers in 1982, I imagine the company intended it to be the “science fiction Dungeons & Dragons ” in the sens...

In discussing the possibility of roleplaying games being invented in another era , I soon found myself thinking more and more about the actu...