Recent content by Flying Toaster

Now that Winnie the Pooh is public domain, somebody has already made a Winnie the Pooh slasher flick. So I guess something like Winnie the Pooh RPG: Fall of the Rise of the Grimdarkening was probably inevitable.

This whole controversy got me thinking about where the OAR line has come from and where it is going next. I first noticed these at one of my local game shops, which had a full array of the first six TSR OARs. They sat on the shelf for a long time, and I would sometimes flip through them out of...

OARs #1-#5 had a $50 MSRP and now gently used copies go for up to $250 on eBay and Noble Knight Games, that is when they are available at all. So between the actual target demographics of grognards who played this back in the day and/or OSR enthusiasts, plus collectors and speculators motivated...

The AD&D 1E Fiend Folio had a whole group of six or seven “Oriental” dragons. Since the book was written in 1979 and published in 1981, it used the older Wade-Giles transliteration for the Chinese word for “dragon” (lung), which has now been largely replaced by Pinyin (long). So there were...

Denis Beauvais was one of my favorite Dragon cover artists, and my friends in my old D&D groups liked his work too. He seems somewhat underrated and does not always get mentioned among the luminaries of 1980’s fantasy artists. I particularly loved those chess match covers. I wonder if a...