I realized this past weekend that I had missed Weird Adventures ' tenth anniversary on December 15, 2021. We are also not too far away ...

This post first appeared in 2015...   Though we played a lot of fantasy games (mostly AD&D) in my middle and high school years--proba...

Clerics need somebody to hear their orisons and NPCs (at least) need someone to swear by, so their must be deities for my upcoming GURPS Dun...

A blue one, in a plastic cargo crate along with the contents of the  Gamma World 3rd Edition box set, Advanced Marvel Super-Heroes charac...

Having returned from Texas with a 20+ year-old game ( Wizards ) I hear isn't very good (and I am unlikely to play in any case) and ...

Though we played a lot of fantasy games (mostly AD&D) in my middle and high school years--probably more than anything else--our longes...

I don't talk a lot about the social aspect of the game here, tending to focus more on ideas or inspirations, but my gaming group has ...

My first foray into "role-playing game design" was a G.I. Joe game. I still have it, but I don't know where it is at the m...

Tim’s post about monster manuals over at Gothridge Manor got me to thinking about an interesting monster book from back in the day: The...

These days, kids getting into fantasy rpgs have a number of film and TV influences to draw from should our increasingly post-literate world ...

I rarely participate in these blogosphere trends (mainly because I tend to come to them too late), but here are the fifteen most meaningful ...

Welcome to my 200th post , 241 days since the inception of my blog. Instead of looking back at my most popular posts, I'd like to re-...

Back in 1985, the comic book crossover wasn’t the perfunctory non-event it is today, but instead something exciting and new. We had had Marv...

Day two at San Diego Comic Con starts late because my co-conspirator, Brandon, doesn’t arrive in San Diego until 2:30 AM having been cuttin...

A friend of mine recorded this footage as we watched the tourney on top of the San Diego Convention Center:  

One day down in San Diego, and alright--there wasn't any loathing, and only a little fear, but the title sounded good... It was a long...

In comic book parlance, I presented the "Modern Age" version of four deities yesterday--though of course, they've been subsum...

The nostalgia continues.  Here's the character sheet of my very first character in any version of D&D I (1e AD&D, in this case...

A recent post and discussion over at Spell Card! got me thinking about my love for Masters of the Universe. I don't mean the 80s cartoo...

The tv promos for the upcoming Clash of the Titans remake has got me thinking about the fantasy films of animator Ray Harryhausen and the...