Showing posts with label Role-playing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Role-playing. 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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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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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 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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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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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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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Pendragon: The holy grail of RPGs remains beyond my grasp

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Question: What is the secret of the Grail? Whom does it serve? Answer: Greg Stafford's Pendragon . My experience with role-playing game...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Tomb of Horrors: A D&D classic, or an unplayable deathtrap?

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The iron men of visage grim do more than meets the viewers eye You've left and left and found my Tomb and now your soul will die. It...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Taking the Lamentations of the Flame Princess challenge

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Over at Lamentations of the Flame Princess , James Edward Raggi IV has asked the blogosphere to take up the gauntlet and list the media infl...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Welcome to the Hall of Fire: My theoretical RPG/book store

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I think it's every gamer's fantasy to own his or her own game store. For me, it's one of those idle "wouldn't that be c...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The magic of Moldvay

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My gateway drug into the seductive hobby known as role-playing was the 1981 Basic D&D box set, as edited by the late, great, Tom Moldva...
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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Age of Conan: Big money for game companies, but (likely) not book publishers

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So have you have you heard of Age of Conan (AoC)? This new computer game is quickly shaping up to be the next World of Warcraft (WoW), a m...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Fight On! has plenty of old-school spirit

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The very first article in Fight On !--"A fanzine for the old-school renaissance"--details a method for quickly and randomly genera...
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Monday, April 7, 2008

D&D: Suffering a slow death?

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Having spent eight years in the newspaper industry working for a small, family-owned broadsheet (which are as commonplace nowadays as milkme...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

A legend is gone

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T'was a sad day for me and the roleplaying community in general: Gary Gygax, co-founder of Dungeons and Dragons and the father of role-...
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Saturday, February 2, 2008

White Dwarf: Remembering a great old magazine

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The recent demise of Dragon and Dungeon magazine (in paper form-- both have since gone electronic) has gotten me a bit nostalgic for the ol...
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