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In 40-odd years I have found there is one way, and one way only, to do this reliably -- get a feel for the game and your group and learn...

When Morrus first offered me this role, I took it begrudgingly. I wasn't sure I could handle the organizational weight of running a...

Do you have a Battlecat?

I get a lot of that vibe too, especially from the 1e grey box version of the Forgotten Realms. The Realms are suffused with lost and...

I agree with your descriptions of the realms, but they don't read as "twee" to me. The large emphasis on bardic and nature themes...

I just started Thunderstruck by Erik Larson. I have not read a Larson book in a while; I really love the way he writes narrative...

Steve Jackson Games has confirmed that the 80's cartoon tabletop RPG Toon will receive a new 2nd edition. The project is planned to...

I finished reading Weiss' Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie. Oh man, I knew that the owner and other higher...

Slaps down Necronautilus on the counter

not to mention, he was writing for what he assumed would be a tiny group of gamers in his area, and had no idea that D&D would take off...

Last night my date requested something with a bit of holiday spirit, and I didn't have any specific ingredients so did a little googling...

I know a lot of people knock them, but I think that the Greyhawk series improved greatly when Rose Estes started writing them. Yeah...

Reading a couple of hundred articles in Dragon makes you realize how good Greenwood's material really is.

I was thinking of his "Gnome Cache" fiction from back in the early days of Dragon. "Saga of Old City" is a much better read than that...

Gygax came from a military miniature / wargame perspective (so did I). There are a lot of assumptions about the knowledge of people...