Finding the audiobook of Simon Green's Deathstalker free on Audible until next week, I decided to revisit it. It's a book I read in...

This past weekend, I visited my mother's family's old hometown of Panama City Beach, Florida. I got a chance to show my kid one of t...

 The recent blast of Rifts related Bundles of Holding  had me not only spending a bit of money (with 5 bundles one was bound to get me!) bu...

I originally posted these maps in 2018, but I came across them again and thought they were worth re-sharing. For those of you not familiar w...

Not too long ago, I made the case for Planetary Romance, and particularly its Sword & Planet (sub-)sub-genre, as good fodder for role-pl...

Need a campaign idea or at least a prompt to develop your own? Just roll on the following table based on the AD&D "Appendix N"...

I've mentioned before how the original Fiend Folio (as compared to the Monster Manual) seems suited as inspiration for sci-fi creature...

To my mind, the these works and works provoke an impeccable  Spelljammer vibe: Don Lawrence ( Storm ) Al Williamson Magnus ( Milady 3000 ...

Earlier this week, Anne reminded us of an old post where she discussed her earliest, fantasy inspirations. It reminded me of my own fantasy...

I wrote the original version of this post in 2014, then I updated it in 2019. It's probably time to check back in and see how the rpg la...

I was thinking about Leigh Brackett's Mars today (as I often do) and reflecting on how it isn't very science fictional at all, so th...

Scott Martin can be blamed for this post for pointing out the similarities between Oz and Edgar Rice Burroughs fandom.... Mars is dying an...

Though the deadline's are tight, I thought it would be fun to join the Appx. N Jam over on itch. The challenge is to create an adventur...

Thinking about my Monday post further (and reading more examples of magic in McKillip's Heir of Sea and Fire ), I feel like the part th...

I wrote a post almost a year ago related to portrayals of magic in fiction I'd like to see magic in fantasy rpgs be more like. In readin...

Sagar is the alien world that astronaut John Blackstar found on the other end of a black hole as revealed in the Filmation animated series B...

 As has been pointed out before, the kind of frontier envisioned by old D&D owes more to Westerns than it does to the Western European M...

Art by Falmarin de Carme I came across this site a couple of weeks ago that compiles additional background material generated for a Finnish...

Scott 'Dwarfland" Driver once opined that there was often more gaming inspiration to be had from "bad" fiction than from ...