As I've said innumerable times since I started this blog, I was never a wargamer . I didn’t have shelves stocked with hex maps or spend...

The last six months of 1989 marked the beginning of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe and, with it, the Cold War. Between June, when So...

I'm sure it'll come as no surprise that issue #75 of Dragon (July 1983) is among my favorites, one I both remember very well (and fo...

My apologies to anyone not particularly interested in the Tékumel setting, which is the backdrop for my long-running House of Worms campaig...

Serendipity is a real thing. When I decided last week to write a Retrospective post about GDW's 1991 horror RPG, Dark Conspiracy , I ha...

Here’s a confession that might get me kicked out of the old school clubhouse: I hate combat in roleplaying games. There: I said it.  Now, I’...

One of the players in the Dolmenwood campaign is away on a three-week trip, so we've elected to put things on hold until she returns. Un...

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about "off shelf" campaign settings , I thought I'd write a bit about a related topic: ...

Here's another strangely prescient sidebar from that Dark Conspiracy preview insert that appeared in issue #47 of Challenge   (December...

Last week,a reader had some interesting things to say in the comments to my post, "Now Make It YOUR Tékumel" (Part I) : James, I ...