One of the things about Appendix N in the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide is that, in the main, the protagonists of the works featured ...

  Last year, I was working on a blog series doing my own take on the world of Greyhawk. As it goes with these things, my interest petered ou...

Art by Jeff Easley Savings throw in latter day editions of D&D are intrinsically tied to ability scores, which is pretty easy to underst...

Art by Jeff Easley A lot has been written about the "Myth of the Frontier" underpinnings of D&D, and the games perhaps greater...

Another way of recasting different groups of elves I've thought about is to draw inspiration from the wuxia tradition with its various k...

I've suggested ( way back in 2012 ) slapping some antenna on elves and giving them some organic-looking armor--in other words, reskinnin...

The Revenger Trilogy is a series of science fiction novels by Alastair Reynolds. In a future millions of years hence, there is a spacefarin...

Tsutomu Nihei The following suggestions for dungeon adventure rpgs may not be entirely novel, but they certainly aren't common in publis...

I got around to watching the series finale of Stranger Things this weekend, and it gave me the idea for setting combining elements of that ...

The original version of this post appeared in December 2020... "Thinking beings of earth planet. This message was sent subsequent to th...

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

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...

 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...

Prismatic Wasteland's call for a Blogging Conclave seemed like a good time to revisit this post originally presented in January of 2020...

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 ...

Art by Mihai Radu The Overking was traditionally appointed by vote of the magnates ruling the constituent territories of the Aedi. One of th...

Under the enlightened rule of the Herzogin Eliamund, South Province could reasonably boast to being the most cultured and genteel realm of t...

I've got more posts to come, but I figured it was a good time to put all the posts I've written so far together in one place: The pr...

Art by Keith Parkinson The barbarians swept out of the hills in a ravening horde, without warning, and stormed Venarium with such fury none ...