I read some interesting stuff this week on magical belief in the early modern era. Specifically, magic used for protection from weapons, sur...

I'm not just talking about the usual suspects like Thundarr the Barbarian or The Pirates of Darkwater ; or ones that already have games...

As with several genres adapted to rpgs, pulp gaming presents a little bit of a problem going from the inspirational fiction to the gaming ta...

 I'd like to see a traditional fantasy rpg with magic like this: Podmore picked up his fork and stood it on its end. Snaith stood, stepp...

My recent trip to Alaska brought to mind this old post from 2011... An arctic of only (melting) ice is sort of boring, don’t you think? At l...

I think my group will finish up our current campaign in the Land of Azurth this year, and though with months to go some plenty of time to ch...

Inspired by Vance mostly, people have considered spells as living entities. It was discussed in the Gplus days, and it shows up in Eric Diaz...

Jim Burns Star Frontiers has a list of "Reading for Fun and Ideas" but (and I'm not the first to point this out ) it's re...

Art by Donato Giancola I'm all for "lived-in futures" and dusty, grubby space Westerns, but I feel like there are some science...

This half-formed rpg setting idea I got the other day. It could probably work with something D&Dish but might be better suited to someth...

Over the weekend, I read this interesting blog series about how polytheism worked in the real world. Check it out.  Anyway, it got me think...

Artist Jeff Nelson has imagined Marvel's Microverse from the Micronauts comic as islands in a sea. Only tangentially related, but this ...

  Sometimes, always with an eye toward being able to use the published material for some well-supported game or another, I get (possibly mad...

I've recently started watching the Epix (now MGM+) TV series From on a free preview. It's the story of a family that find themselve...

 In 1986, Marvel launched the New Universe. It was envisioned as a more realistic setting--"the world outside your window." There ...

This post originally appeared in June of 2015...   Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the ski...

This post was originally published on May 2, 2013, shortly after the death of Andrew J. Offutt. News of Andrew J. Offutt 's passing on ...

Earl Norem Big monsters are a hallmark of Bronze Age Four-Color fantasy of the Swords & Sorcery mode. These creatures are often are the...

The Known World of Mystara is a Hyborian Age-esque fantasyland of often thinly disguised real world cultures from a variety of historical er...

 The map of Conan's world by Katrin Dirim  I shared the other day was interesting not just because her her artistic style (though that&#...