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The irony is that a year or so after TSR UK stopped producing Imagine, White Dwarf went house-only so stopped covering D&D. Paul...

I have a huge fondness for the gaming magazines of the hoary days of prehistory (ca. 1980s-1990s), and while the Web has pretty much...

Grodog: yes, but I am completing my internship right now, pretty far from them. If you are interested, e-mail me in about two weeks and...

Your criticisms of trap-finding and thieves are fair and I largely agree with them, but we cannot really expect to see such changes in...

I don't know about OSRIC in particular, but in AD&D 1e the Thief find traps ability is for small mechanic traps, like poison needles and...

Just saw OSRIC 3.0 Player's Guide is on Drive-Thru for free! Downloading now. Looking forward to flipping through it tonight.

I just wanted to post a thank you to the people responsible for creating this story. This has been something I've returned to, reading...

Cthulhu first met D&D back in Dragon issue #12, which was published February 1978. Rob Kuntz stated up a bunch of Lovecraftian nasties...

One interesting bit in Holmes' story is a reference to "under Witch's Hill, where the old Suloise city is supposed to be buried". I...

Thanks for plugging the book! I contributed the bibliography and article about Holmes' writings. That page hasn't been updated, but from...

They are signed, but by Chris Holmes, who is Eric Holmes son. The book was published in 2017 and Holmes died in 2010. I'm glad to hear...

I would love to read this, but the order process is hinky. Also, I do most of my reading on a kindle.

Is there anything Mr. Greenwood can't do? I actually didn't know he was a contributing artist. This cover is not my favorite. It's a...

""The Sorcerer's Jewel" is a short story by J. Eric Holmes and the fifth in his "Boinger the Halfling" series. It is pretty typical...

Dragon Magazine somewhere around Issue 79-83 had a good article. my memory is shot, sorry. :o