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At some point, I promised to share my FLGS's D&D sales from July 2014 to October 2025, for those that like to look at lists. Obviously...

People shout at WotC when they do anything new. Or anything old.

Sci-fi and fantasy literature in the 80s was marginalized. For instance, there was a lot of splash in the Waldenbooks I frequented, but...

Like, I know the past is a foreign country and all, but it astonishes me that they were marketed as kids books.

Same here, except I was intrigued enough to buy the box set, so I have all three of them, sitting hidden behind another row of books...

Problematic content aside, it's only natural that some writers who were superstars in the SF/fantasy world back then haven't stood the...

One of the things I'm enjoying about this series is the reminder of certain vintage games and SF that I should be looking to add to my...

Oof. Bio of a Space Tyrant. As a kid, I missed the creepy themes in the Xanth books and I chased after new books by Piers Anthony. I...

The Thomas Covenant books were what convinced me that I needed to have a protagonist, where I cared whether they lived or died. Thomas...

We had less to choose from back in the day! And there wasn't a good way to get book reviews before picking up a title as a kid in the...

Ah, thanks! David Eddings was a child abuser, he did real harm in the real world. Piers Anthony wrote a lot of creepy stuff into his...

Don't think I used any of the ideas in this issue, although I had planned to make use of the troops one...and then never got a campaign...

I seem to remember he did troops for all of the classes that get them in AD&D, and also for nonhumans, so that they would be...

Yep. I recently re-read "Saga of Old City" and the druid gives a defense of neutrality that still seems to land on the "good" side of...

I think most of us can agree that Piers needs therapy.