To say that I was a Star Wars fan during my childhood is something of an understatement. Children are, by nature, given to intense enthusias...

With apologies to DAT. Lots of stuff going on right now. Regular posting will resume as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.

Despite my somewhat negative assessment of  the lasting impact of Tracy Hickman on the development of AD&D , I nevertheless respect Hic...

Longtime readers may object that I've already done a Retrospective  post on The World of Greyhawk . Pedantic as ever, I must reply that...

The series of Middle-earth sourcebooks published by Iron Crown Enterprises during the early 1980s occupy a strange place in my personal hist...

Yesterday, I was chatting with one of the players in my House of Worms campaign. He mentioned that, growing up in Europe in the 1980s, he l...

That the history of the RPG industry is filled curiosities should come as no surprise. Then, as now, "the industry" largely consi...

I was examining my draft posts on Blogger to see if I'd left any genuinely worthy ones unfinished and noticed something peculiar: there ...

Issue #8 of Polyhedron (October 1982) occupies a special place in my heart for a couple of reasons. For one, this was the very first issue I...