I've recently been listening to the audiobook of 2 4 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Yijie Z...

The above illustration by Enrique Alcatena, Argentine comic book artist extraordinaire, inspired me to create a group of deities.  Werdagda ...

 In thinking about Greyhawk for my recent posts, I've been inspired by Anna Meyer's great maps. Particularly her climate map which h...

Constructed languages, at least for naming, are a big part of fantasy literature. Evocative coinings like Minas Tirith, Lankhmar, Aes Sedai,...

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) describes Howard's Hyborian Age and similar imagined worlds as "fantasylands" in contrast ...

 Lately I've been thinking about how well some classic adventures might adapted to real world settings. By real world, I mean historical...

There are a lot of very reasonable criticisms regarding the Gygaxian Great Wheel of Outer Planes, though I also like a lot about it . I'...

 And the M is for "Medieval." I've read some dark and/or weird fantasy set in the Middle Ages of late, and I figured I'd p...

I don't know Gary Gygax's preferences in regard to authors of fantasy fiction, but I feel pretty strongly that L. Sprague de Camp (1...

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...