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When I started reading them, I loved the scope - the many nations, the history, the reincarnation, the ageless twink collection known as...

When I’m less sleepy I will post more, but for now a short answer; the characters.

:: Sniffs derisively and tugs at braid ::

It is with a heavy heart that we report the passing of Rob Wieland. As well as his weekly reviews column here at EN World, Rob's work...

Reviewing products in the house organ magazine had to be a fraught thing. Not only were you reviewing the products of the people signing...

For me, it kinda has. When the new edition came out, I decided it wasn't for me, and that I would not be playing or running D&D anymore...

Yes, it is "damning with faint praise." But I also felt like it was an honest review, rather than Bunnell grasping for something good to...

On a whim, I just read Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story, The Imp of the Perverse. I'd been familiar with this turn of phrase—denoting...

Always consider statistical effects - in this case, our personal gaming experiences, and the reporting you'd see on EN World, are...

I always liked the explanation in Dickinson's The Flight of Dragons. That dragons can't sleep on something flammable, and gold is a soft...

I think that's a good way to sum up good prep - not so much needing to plan for every outcome, but to understand the situation and the...

I prepare until I have a decent understanding of the situation as of the start of the session. This can be a lot of research, thinking...

Dragon Publishing released Dragon #98 in June 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features dragons...

Looking at people I gamed with back in the day, that sort of grossness was around. I wouldn't say that it was integral, but there were...

Yeah, I expect there were examples of it and that he found multiple instances of it in his interviews and observations. I still find it...