Examining Magic Users in The Dark Eye
Paolo Greco, writer of the Adventure Fantasy Game (Lost Pages), has been running a series on his blog examining casters in various other games. His third post examines Das Schwarze Auge, better known...
View ArticleEmpire of the Petal Throne Damage Scaling
Wayne Rossi took a look at Empire of the Petal Throne on his Semper Initiativus Unum blog, and examined what it did differently from OD&D with regards to damage scaling, Fighters, and the idea of...
View ArticleHawk & Moor tells the history of Gary & Dave and all the characters in between
The Hawk & Moor series of books explores the history of Dungeons & dragons
View ArticleSpells through the Ages: Confusion
On ongoing series at Delta’s D&D Hotspot, the Spells through the Ages series takes a look at the Confusion spell and examines it through its origins in Chainmail through to the Dungeons &...
View ArticleNPCs and Levels: Rick Stump looks at some numbers in his 1e campaign
Adventuring parties are made up of characters who have moved beyond 0-level in most games (Dungeon Crawl Classics notwithstanding) and most non-player characters tend to gain very little experience...
View ArticleOn Dex vs Con
Character creation sometimes comes down down to strategic decisions for some players in the placement of attribute values in some games, especially after class requisites have been met. In a post on...
View ArticleLooking back at dice expressions with Steve Winter
Steve Winter wrote a post a long time ago that might resonate with many: the use of standard notation for dice expressions between editions. Although this is an article posted during the Dungeons &...
View Article“Many Monsters Carry Treasure”, a continued look at Holmes Basic
At the Zenopus Archives, a blog dedicated to Holmes Basic, there’s been a series running examining the original manuscript for the game against the final version that was published. The most recent...
View ArticleDesigners & Dragons Kickstarter Now Live
Evil Hat Productions have just launched the Designers & Dragons Kickstarter which aims to publish a four volume revision of the original Designers & Dragons publication by Shannon Appelcline...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship of Adventuring, GMing Flowchart
Justin Aquino has written a interesting post over at Game In The Brain on his method of GMing. As someone who researches game theory and likes to develop graphic information models, I appreciate it...
View ArticleKevin Crawford working on study of TSR Book Design
Kevin Crawford, of Sine Nomine Publishing, has started a personal project to research the book design practices of TSR. In it, he’s examining many of the publications that TSR have published in the...
View ArticleExpeditious Retreat Press OneBookShelf PDFs 50% off
Expeditious Retreat Press have just announced a massive 50% off sale on all of their product lines via DriveThruRPG and RPGNow . This includes not only their Advanced Adventures line for OSRIC, but...
View ArticleThe history of Turning Undead in D&D
The Hidden in Shadows blog by D. H. Boggs has a really interesting examination of the origins of Turn Undead and its implementation in classic Dungeons & Dragons and D&D-alike games. He’s taken...
View ArticleQ&A with Shannon Appelcline at Age of Ravens
Age of Ravens has posted a Q&A it held with Shannon Appelcline, author of Designers & Dragons, the latest Kickstarter from Evil Hat Productions. It’s an interesting interview that uncovers...
View ArticleFirst D&D Variant now available to Download
Jon Peterson continues his fantastic academic research journey into the history of our hobby by not only uncovering the first D&D variant ever created, but working with the original author to help...
View ArticleComparison of TSR D&D between first and last versions
D. H. Boggs has started an awesome research project at the Hidden in Shadows blog: comparing the changes between the first and last versions of the TSR versions of Dungeons & Dragons. The material...
View ArticleSci-Fi Channel Masters of Fantasy – TSR: The Fantasy Factory
Back in 1996, the Sci-Fi Channel (before they renamed it) ran a biographical series called Masters of Fantasy. One of the episodes they ran focused on TSR. At just over 20 minutes long, this is a short...
View ArticleOn why GMs should still be players
Phil Vecchione has put together a great post at Gnome Stew about why it’s important for GMs to also continue to play games rather than just GM all the time. The major takeaway from the article is the...
View ArticleJudges Guild’s Bob & Bill: A Cautionary Tale on Kindle
Bill Owen writes about the history of The Judge's Guild in the updated and expanded third edition of this book.
View ArticleThe OSR, libraries, and youth programming
The new book Dragon in the Stacks looks at RPGs in libraries, and the OSR makes a strong showing.
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