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Throughout his writings in Dragon, Gygax regularly suggested stuff that he'd clearly never tried or even thought all the way through...

Contrary to some online reviewers, this is the only nugget dragon has had in several months from my perspective as a DM, as while this...

What a beautiful cover. One of the most iconic of that period.

Great cover.

I believe the first thing I ever did when I got access to spreadsheet software was try to use it to track RPG stats. Of course, at the...

Fair enough, I was thinking Visicalc came out later, but I was probably thinking of Lotus 1-2-3 going mainstream in the mid-1980s.

Visicalc would like to have a talk with you! (Unless you mean from the get go and not from this issue)

I don't know. That's a totally different game experience, in my mind, and unless you were coming to D&D from wargaming, switching modes...

I think you underestimate how many fantastical bean counters were playing AD&D, especially among the former wargamers, despite the fact...

I imagine that most people interested in the deity hit points issue just gave them whatever hit points they wanted and then figured out...

The domain game that AD&D was supposed to transition to at higher levels would provide plenty of opportunities for PCs to spend their...

That era is so much worse then this one. Coming down from the peak, but there is much farther to go.

That is a fantastic cover. It has a dreamy feeling evoking medieval legends that was not often present in D&D of any era. The game...

Magnificent cover. One of my all-time favorites! @M.T. Black reading this column motivated me to pick up a few back issues from a...

I missed this issue for some reason, but this? This is the same premise behind Peter Adkison's The Primal Order: The Primal Order -...