Let’s just go all out for it with the grande finale: we’ll squeeze three great words together for this one! Meet Zelatrix Aurora of Cabaria, sworn by oath to the order of law...

Fair is fair. Earlier this month I posted an article about Kickstarter making a frankly harebrained and chilling business decision centered on the same sort of...

Ypotryll The ypotryll is a hideous animal which gathers in large herds of fifty or more animals across the Hyrkanian steppes. Ypotrylls are most often described as having the...

It is all so tiresome. The latest domino to fall in the “don’t-call-it-debanking” scheme of the American bigot-industrial complex is, unsurprisingly, Kickstarter. I say it is...

There’s no reason to support Wizards of the Coast anymore. So, Wizards of the Coast has an incredible new innovation in the world of role-playing games, and that innovation is...

Ah, Xiccarph, a strange and savage world home to sorcery and science in equal measure, a gleaming jewel of Klarkash-ton. Xiccarph, the home of the tyrant thaumaturgist Maal...

Up front, I gotta say, we didn’t take nearly as many photos this time as we would have liked! We didn’t get to document booths or anything like that. But I swear, I have a good...

Weird fiction is, in many ways, what set the stage for Dungeons & Dragons. It inspired generations of creative minds from the very first moments it arrived on the scene in the...

A quick follow-up to the challenge posted earlier in April, just for accountability purposes I suppose. The goal, paraphrasing Tim Brannan, was to provoke conversation and fill...

Legends speak of Archduke Mijslav of House Lyria, whose brilliant scarlet coat of arms came to be known and feared far and wide across the violent westernmost territories....

Who doesn’t love a great Hollow Earth story? It was a classic Moldvay setting besides! Who doesn’t love a secret society of outcasts and mutants deep in a sewer, subway, or...

Day twenty! Almost done with Blogging A-to-Z. The letter T brings us to the Tablet of Tol Morad, a mystical object sought by sages and wizards the world over. It was in the...

Having given up on fussing with adding a second sidebar onto the right side of my blog for the time being, I have juggled the footer section a bit to make room for Daniel...

Tim Brannan over at The Other Side set out to do a different sort of April challenge this month: to comment on at least one blog a day, really engaging with the subject matter...

Because it’s my blog and I can do whatever I want, here’s something I hope someone finds some joy in: This is the live performance of Veteran of the Psychic Wars by Blue Öyster...

The dreaded snake: scourge of man, terror of archaeologists, sworn foe of silver screen Cimmerians. The slithery, venomous beasts have been staples of our milieu since its...

As a longtime player of the Basic Dungeons & Dragons game, I grew up with your character’s race being equivalent to a class (by the book), meaning it was how you got your...

Here we are, back at it again, after an interruption of a month or so. I didn’t get to participate in the February RPG Blog Carnival as my computer was in pieces transiting...

Never thought I’d be so happy to see webrings return to the internet but my god do I detest the current state of the commercialized dead internet so here we are! I have very...

“What the fuck is a quinotaur,” I hear you ask under your breath, “is this stupid possum just making stuff up for the hard letters?” Well, the answer is yes, but also no! The...

Portals are cool as hell. Who doesn’t love those science fiction and fantasy covers from the golden age of paperbacks where the other side of a doorway is different from the...

C’mon, you didn’t think I’d miss this opportunity, did you? I love these little guys. Here’s some galleries (click to advance them) and thoughts about opossums/my life...

It is an honor to bring you this, the 10,000,000,000th angry Star Wars rant on the internet since its official founding on 1 Jan 1983. Some really amazing rants over the years...

North of the Azhar Mountains and east of the Mogar Heights lay the strange land of Somnoth, more formally known as The Most Holy Land of Respite, Somnoth Reach. Here the rugged...

Editor’s Note: This is long and no one can make you read it. Music is tied to D&D and role-playing games for me in many ways. The rules of the associations between the two have...

Recall Sehemet Khaf, high priestess of the temple city of Khefet Nile, where crocodiles were crowned with gold and carnelian along the lazy sun-drenched shores of the River...

Perhaps a batch of daggers would go over well at this point in the challenge, eh? Steyg Though its true origin is lost to the sands of time, there are some who say this knife...

What is a treasure hoard without a little ice to hang off the wrist? Who among us doesn’t love to walk out of the Witch-King’s vile, festering pits with a brand new Cuban link?...

What can you really say about the conclusion of the BECMI set, Basic D&D: Immortals? Like, for real? It’s weird as hell. It’s absolutely unrelated to D&D in practice; I do not...

I’ve long considered writing this post, but I always hesitate and then demur. It’s of interest to probably no one out there, but it is something that is on my mind often. I...