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the official expansion of the druid's levels was nice, but.... I can't recall anyone ever in any of the groups I was in actually running...

"Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd" was one of my all-time favorite Dragon articles. It was short and useful and it was written by Mentzer rather...

Or another were in full-tiger form. That certainly aged poorly, especially with some fairly dire cultural stereotyping in the mix...

The nose on that weretiger is the problem, IMO. That's not what cat noses look like, and making her nose extend to be a cat feels like...

Agreed! As handy as it is to have an entire internet full of gaming material at my beck and call, there was something magical about...

This cover is terrible. OOF, not a fan even back then, but I did like the Dragon #90 harpy cover. A generally decent to OK issue, if I...

I agree but...... 1: my math/physics skills improved a lot by applying them to D&D. It gave a young kid "real" world applications to a...

Dragon Publishing released Dragon #93 in January 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features world...

That parallels my (US) experience. Read the first six young, never re-read them and have no sense of nostalgia, which is really bad...

I've started a few new campaigns in town/village during a festival or feast day, PCs get to compete in games, attend the markets and...

Great idea also to make downtime more interesting!

Have the methods of celebration be collective magical Rituals with mechanical benefits for the participants.

Yeah, they were certainly popular in my neck of the woods (Australia). They were seen as adult and literate in a way that a lot of...

When I started writing my Iskandar setting, I did a deep dive into real medieval societies. One thing I noticed was that holy...

Daggerheart tries to simultaneously offer a robust set of combat tools driven by high fantasy while also encouraging a collaborative...