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My group hadn't been playing 1E D&D very long. We entered a room with stairs descending to the floor of the room, where a red dragon was curled up on his pile of treasure. The monk whooped and rushed down to start whacking it on the nose. Staying on the balcony, my elvish fighter/magic user...

Exactly my path to the Calidar Kickstarters. The books are packed with flavorful and useful information, and the maps are beautiful! I really like the world that Bruce is building here.

Why does the door appear to be floating?

Why does the door appear to be floating?

I'll second continuing to cover the issues in order. It provides a context for the development of the magazine, TSR as a company, and D&D and the roleplaying industry as a whole. While I started playing D&D in the mid-to-late 70s, my group was isolated in a small town, pretty much in a vacuum...

In the late '70s to early '80s, my gaming group ran parallel sessions of D&D and a more free-form improvisational RPG. They all happened in the same campaign world, and many of the characters and storylines overlapped constantly. There were certainly folks in the group who were more comfortable...

A friend got a copy of Basic blue box in '77. He allowed us to make photocopies of the monster and treasure lists so we could start stocking our own dungeons. So when we rolled a "stirge", we had no idea what that was. Since the list was filled with fighters w/ weird names ("Champion"...

Back in high school/college (late '70s to early '80s), we played a more free-form improvisational RPG that often overlapped our D&D sessions. We had lots of characters that paired up, and not just between players that were dating. Children often resulted. It added an interesting dimension to the...

The text is still confusing for Huǒyǎn-Jīnjīng, as well. I'm enjoying this series of articles a lot! Keep up the great work!

I played a couple of sessions with my kids' homeschool group when they were much younger (6-9 years old?) to help them get started roleplaying; the mom of a couple of the other kids was the DM. That crew was ingenious! At one point, we were climbing through a tower when we were stopped by an...

I've been taking my kids to Free Comic Book Days for years. I always make it a point to buy a couple of items to show my support for the store. The owner also usually invites a local comic book artist or two to set up a table to meet fans & sell their books. One year they were doing a Marvel...

BLACKMOOR. For the real old-time grognards... :p

I'm sorry to hear that these round-ups are being discontinued. I seldom have time to watch the 'casts, but enjoyed hearing a summary of the shenanegans.

This is almost certainly due to a weirdness in Amazon's categorization algorithms. But then, many druids do live a healthy, natural lifestyle. Can "Volo's Guide to Waterdeep Juice Bars" be far away?

Wow. Not only do I think these objections are petty, they're also misguided and inaccurate. Just by using a naming pattern for a few books, WotC is dragging the spotlight off of your characters and onto theirs? That is a mighty big inferiority complex you have, then, to be so easily...

Wow. Not only do I think these objections are petty, they're also misguided and inaccurate. Just by using a naming pattern for a few books, WotC is dragging the spotlight off of your characters and onto theirs? That is a mighty big inferiority complex you have, then, to be so easily...

The issue with the Lasers and Liches campaign is why I'm leery about first-timers offering a ton of different physical rewards. Enthusiasm is great, but so many campaigns like that have crashed and burned in the past, leaving both creators and backers angry and empty-handed. Kudos to these guys...

I picked up the "expanded" bundle. Looking forward to reading through it, especially OLD (for ideas to steal for my current 5e campaign) & NEW (for starting a new SF galactic exploration campaign). The ship recognition manuals look very cool, too!

Very good review! Thanks for the update.

I haven't been able to watch regularly, so I'm very much looking forward to these articles. Great idea, and congratulations to Annie!