Richard Hescox I feel like planetary romance (sometimes called Sword & Planet, though I think that might be better thought as a subgenr...

Presumably no one on Earth has yet experienced interplanetary space travel. When the creators of space travel-related media go to describe i...

 I first became aware of Canadian artist Kent Burles via his comic book work in The Adventurers, though I had seen it decades ago in Malibu...

  Welsh triads , a historical form found in Medieval manuscripts where folkloric and mythologic tidbits are presented in groupings of three ...

The original version of this post appeared in July 2015. I never did finish writing In Doom's Wake, but it got playtested twice I beli...

Mogh's fortress is a ruin. Pigs root in the courtyard and roam noisily in his empty halls or drowse in sunbeams beneath a decaying roof....

Our Land of Azurth game continued last night, but I haven't written about the previous session, so this covers both. The party only had ...

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...

 Poking around the Internet Archive yesterday, I discovered the series bible to BraveStarr , the 1987 Space Western from Filmation. The most...

Here's an idea for a campaign for an action/covert mission rpg.  Outgunned is what I'm thinking of, but it would work with somethin...

 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 ...

The original version of this post appeared in March of 2015... I've written previously about a world where the dungeoneering was an d...

I don't know much of anything about Dave Hargrave or his inspirations for Arduin but the art and content suggest Hargrave's inspirat...

In the waning days of the Great Kingdom, folk who were faced with debts they could not pay or disagreements with the legal authorities that ...