Issue #26 of White Dwarf (August/September 1981) features a cover by Ian McCaig, an artist well known for his contributions to movies and al...

I've lately been thinking about ability scores – the actual numbers  associated with any given ability – and how they might be made to ...

Between issues #34 (February 1980) and #57 (January 1982) of Dragon magazine, there appeared a series of articles written by Glenn Rahman en...

I've never made any secret of  my ambivalence toward the 1982 Conan the Barbarian movie of John Milius, even though this is heresy in s...

Ashalakat (Blood Creeper) The ashalakat is a 4'-long monstrosity possessing a flat, translucent body and eight strong tentacles. The bea...

Here's an advertisement for Boot Hill I'd never seen before. It appeared in issue #40 of Dragon (August 1980).

In a comment to yesterday's post about my ongoing House of Worms Empire of the Petal Throne campaign, I was asked why I balked at giv...

This notice appeared in issue #40 of Dragon (August 1980). I can only assume that this was part of a public relations campaign in the afterm...

Tom Wham is an underappreciated game designer in my opinion. While several of his designs, like The Awful Green Things from Outer Space , a...

I've mentioned before  that one of the longstanding player characters in my House of Worms Empire of the Petal Throne campaign, Aíthfo ...