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 ...

Art by Alex Ross Jack Kirby's so-called " Fourth World ," an interconnected group of series at DC Comics from 1970-1973, posit...

I was on vacation last week and visited Antwerp where I saw the Brabofontein in the Grote Markt. It depicts events related to the legendary ...

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 ...