Showing posts with label Dungeons and Dragons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dungeons and Dragons. Show all posts
Sunday, March 17, 2024

50 years of Dungeons and Dragons

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No save... but lots of fun. This is the year of golden anniversaries. On the heels of 50 years of Savage Sword of Conan comes a half centur...
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Monday, September 26, 2022

Michael Moorcock and other Stranger Things

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I was OOO (and frankly, only semi-coherent) this past Friday-Sunday, after a sorely needed guys weekend getaway. Me and four other dudes ren...
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Saturday, March 26, 2022

Fueling the Fire of Fantasy Fiction: Gaming’s Influence on Today’s Writers

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Another post of mine is up and can be found on the blog of Goodman Games/Tales from the Magician's Skull: Fueling the Fire of Fantasy Fi...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Slinging sword-and-sorcery about the interwebs

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A couple recent posts up at two of my favorite hangouts: Catching up with Tom Barber, Classic S&S Artist,  at the blog of DMR Books. Dun...
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Saturday, December 26, 2020

Tom Moldvay/Basic D&D "Inspirational Source Material" vs. Appendix N

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Gary Gygax’s Appendix N has been the recipient of much analysis, praise, scrutiny, and exploration. With Appendix N Gygax provided a roadmap...
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Friday, July 24, 2020

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's all about execution.

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The title of the post should speak for itself, but a little context. Heard on the intranets recently... "Gary Gygax ripped off Dave A...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

On the passing of classic D&D artist Jim Holloway

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Will you dare his tomb? You will,  because Jim Holloway pointed the way. A big name in fantasy role-playing/Dungeons and Dragons art p...
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Friday, May 22, 2020

Remembering my friend, and Dungeon Master, Rick Langtry

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Three years ago I lost my friend Rick Langtry to cancer. Rick was a guy that readers of this blog would have liked—a fan of fantasy fictio...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Michael Moorcock on the airwaves: New interview up on the Appendix N Book Club podcast

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I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that one of the podcasts in my regular listening rotation, Appendix N Book Club, recently cond...
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Thursday, November 28, 2019

Of White Dwarf magazine and ruminations on genre fiction

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By the Sacred Jockstrap of Robert E. Howard! Since writing Flame and Crimson I seem to have become hyper-aware of the term “sword-and-...
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Friday, June 22, 2012

Metal Friday Special Edition: Maiden Countdown, "The Clairvoyant"

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Continuing my countdown to the Maiden England tour (holy shit--it's only four days away), today I pause to recognize and celebrate the g...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Celebrating ten years of slaying dragons

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This past weekend we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our current D&D group . As anticipated we did something really crazy on our 10t...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Ten years of Dungeons and Dragons, Mach II

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This May will mark the 10th anniversary of my return to Dungeons and Dragons, all with the same group. I’m not sure how we’ll celebrate the ...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

The ultimate D&D collector's item: Yours for $7,995.00

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Check it out: Nobleknight.com is now selling an original first edition, first printing, woodgrain D&D box set, signed by both Gygax and ...
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Friday, August 7, 2009

Of The Hobbit and level titles in D&D

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I was listening to The Hobbit while driving to work the other day when this exchange between Thorin and Gandalf impressed itself on my D&am...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: How Dungeons and Dragons and Appendix N helped inspire a generation of readers

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From such sources, as well as just about any other imaginative writing or screenplay, you will be able to pluck kernels from which to grow t...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

My top 10 Dungeons and Dragons monsters

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All right, so I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but in joining with the semi-recent spate of bloggers around the Web listing thei...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

In memoriam

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Welcome to the land of imagination. You are about to begin a journey into worlds where magic and monsters are the order of the day, where la...
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Sunday, January 11, 2009

More on Tolkien and RPGs

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I’d like to take a moment to comment on a great post over at Grognardia which celebrates the birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien and explains some ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Three reasons I'm staying out of the 4E fray

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So for all the hype, wailing, gnashing of teeth, criticism, and praise I've seen heaped upon the newest version of Dungeons and Dragons,...
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