I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on October 17, 198...

I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis ! This week, I'm looking at comics that were published on...

This post presents the deities as if they existed in a (pseudo-)historical context where people's understanding of them might have changed a...

Michael Whelan Michael Shea's Nifft the Lean (1982) and its sequels are too recent to be in Appendix N, of course, but rereading the novel ...

My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis . This week, I'm looking at the comics that were ...

I haven't posted about it in a while , but our campaign in Nimble continues.   Since that last post, the party tracked the faerie kidnapper...

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I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on September 26, 1...

Lately, I've been furthering my exploration of L. Sprague de Camp's fantasy work, with the Novarian stories, but I've also dipped into som...

Paul Vermeren's game of futuristic, super-powered resistance fighters on the run is back in a new edition! The standalone game GRIDSHOCK ZER...

I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on September 19, 1...

You are a new breed of heroes, fighting to restore hope to a warped world in the grip of villainy. A new, standalone tabletop roleplaying game of superpowered resistance on the run, powered by the Yea...

T his past week, I had a brief vacation in Michigan and picked up a book on Colonial-era French folklore. It had a chapter on Nain Rouge, wh...

Last week, I checked out 2 books from DC's "Next Level" initiative (Next Level apparently being where you go once you are All In. I wonder ...

I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis ! This week, I'm looking at comics that were published on...

The Velunans pride themselves on being the first people to adopt the faith of Nomism . Whether or not this is true, it is certain that the V...

VX2 presents a roleplaying game of superhuman resistance on the run, powered by the Year Zero Engine.

Thanks to Prismatic Wasteland's post , I was made aware of a blogwagon in the GLoGosphere about naming. I am not a GloGger, but that post go...

My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis . This week, I'm looking at the comics that were ...

Looking back through some old files on Google Drive I found this generator I made back in 2015 for MOTU-esque characters. Could also be used...

Occupying a narrow, rocky peninsula, Onnwal has ever relied on the sea and the hills for its livelihood. When it was an obedient part of the...

I confess that while long being a Hellboy fan, I sort of lost interest in the series with its innumerable spinoffs sometime in the 2010s. Si...

My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis . This week, I'm looking at the comics that were ...

What's the core mechanic of this game like? What changes does GRIDSHOCK make to the Year Zero Engine?

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 don't real...

Art by Gary Gianni. Check out all those polearms! While my Greyhawk series of posts are all just sort of pseudo-encyclopedia entry sort of s...

I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on August 22, 1985...

Proud Keoland is the oldest of the human nations of the Flanaess. Though diminished from its greatest glory, its rulers never bowed to lords...

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...

I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on August 15, 1985...

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

As when I wrote this post in 2019, I've been watching some wuxia film lately, and then there was the announcement of a new edition of Dark S...

art by Alcatena The main action of the first Dark Sun material is set in the Tyr Region, also called the Tablelands. This is an area a bit b...

I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis ! This week, I'm looking at comics that were published on...

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

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

My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of  Crisis . This week, I'm looking at the comics that were ...