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Worlds of Design: More Human Than Human

30-some years ago I wrote an article "My Life as a Werebear" (in White Dwarf #17) that provided...

Feb 28, 2020

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Played It Review of Old-School Essentials Using D&D ‘s The Lost City

Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy: Rules Tome is a complete in one rulebook combination of...

Feb 27, 2020

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DM Guild Treasures: 5 BECMI Modules That Deserve the Big Book Treatment

There are a number of players, old and new, who have affection for the original Basic and Expert...

Feb 18, 2020

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RPG Crowdfunding News – Tome of Beasts 2, High Colonies, 70 RPG Zines, and More

This week’s list of RPG crowdfunding projects covers those campaigns that end between February...

Feb 12, 2020

#Dungeons & Dragons #OSR #Pathfinder

RPG Crowdfunding News – Age of Ambition, MaricopaCon, ZineQuest 2, and more

The story this week is Kickstarter’s second ZineQuest, their annual initiative giving RPG zines...

Feb 5, 2020

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Worlds of Design: A Question of Balance

Some people think that every character class must be equally balanced with every other class...

Jan 31, 2020

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Old-School Essentials and Basic D&D Campaign Building

In 1981, Basic Dungeons & Dragons by Tom Moldvay released, quickly followed by Expert D&D by...

Jan 21, 2020

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Podcast Special Episode: Actual Play of Esoteric Enterprises with Emmy Allen

This special bonus episode features Emmy Allen running a one-shot of their new roleplaying game...

Jan 8, 2020

#OSR #Podcasts

Crowdfunding News – Complete Illustrated Book of Conjuration and more

This week, I roundup most of the RPG crowdfunding projects that end between January 10th and the...

Jan 1, 2020

#Dungeons & Dragons #OSR #World of Darkness

New Year, New Campaign

As 2019 wraps up, Christmas may bring you new RPGs which encourage you to consider starting a...

Dec 31, 2019

#Call of Cthulhu #OSR

Crowdfunding News – Gradient Descent, City of Mists, GiantLands, and more

This article looks at RPG crowdfunding projects ending between December 13th to the 19th. As is...

Dec 4, 2019

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Crowdfunding News – A Christmas Carol Adventure, Electric Bastionland, and more

All of the RPG crowdfunding projects shared here are available through either GameOnTabletop...

Nov 27, 2019

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Interview with Travis Legge for Scarred Lands (Onyx Path Publishing)

Travis Legge (Onyx Path Publishing and Aegis Studios) reached out to me with a press release for...

Nov 21, 2019

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Crowdfunding News – The Islands of Sina Una, TORG Cyberpapacy, and more

The 22 RPG crowdfunding projects covered in this article end between Black Friday and December...

Nov 20, 2019

#Dungeons & Dragons #OSR #Pathfinder #Traveller

Crowdfunding News – Forbidden Lands: Bitter Reach, Sins of the Father, and more

At least 20 RPG Kickstarters end between September 27th to October 3rd. This article covers...

Sep 18, 2019

#Apps & Tools #Dungeons & Dragons #OSR #Pathfinder #Savage Worlds

The Dueling Essays of Arneson & Gygax

A recent article and documentary about Dave Arneson's involvement in Dungeons & Dragons shares a...

Sep 9, 2019

#Dungeons & Dragons #Industry #OSR

Poll of the Week: What's the Best Gift For a RPG Player?

We heard about what you would buy a game master for the holidays, so now it's the player's turn!

Nov 24, 2018

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Rules Cyclopedia Of Basic D&D Now In Print

My all-time favorite D&D book ever. I love this thing. I got it new when it first came out and...

Feb 6, 2018

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Frank Mentzer reveals more details on Worlds of Empyrea

Frank Mentzer, in a video interview about his years in game design and upcoming Kickstarter, notes that Worlds of Empyrea will not just include multi-system support, but that each game system will have an Empyrea boxed set tailor made to fit the play style for that particular game system, which he hopes to release for Gen Con 2018 following the upcoming Kickstarter next month.

Sep 27, 2017

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Hot Roleplaying Games

I've made a couple of changes to my live Hot Roleplaying Games chart. The chart monitors over a quarter of a million forum members and approaching a thousand blogs on a selection of major independent RPG discussion forums to create an overall sample of what games are being discussed on the web.