An integral part of my pathetic attempt to reclaim my lost youth is re-watching a lot of the old TV shows and movies that I loved as a young...

"Lost world" stories, in which a modern man is flung into a corner of reality whose physical -- and metaphysical -- laws are diffe...

If the late James Brown was the hardest working man in show business, then James Mishler may be the hardest working man in the old school m...

I'm a firm believer in the notion that you can never have too many low-level adventures. Part of the reason why I believe this is becaus...

Reader Markus Siebler pointed me toward a new interview with Michael Moorcock that can be found here . As always, there's some very inte...

I reading the comments to my latest post on the subject of save or die effects in D&D , I think I've finally hit upon precisely wher...

I've talked before about the influence of Westerns on Dungeons & Dragons , so it's really no surprise that one of the earliest ...

More old news, but Mike D of Sword +1 has released his chanbara -inspired version of Swords & Wizardry . Called Ruins & Ronin , it...

The term saving throw is common enough, coming to us from miniatures wargames and D&D . It represents the chance for the figure concerne...

One of the lasting, if unfortunate, legacies of the Revised Third Edition of Dungeons & Dragons is the widespread use of version numbers...