While all of the #RPGaDAY prompts are thought provoking, most of them fall into the realm of "realistic." Today's prompt is th...

When the first 'Fighting Fantasy" gamebook The Warlock of Firetop Mountain was published in 1982, it helped to create an entir...

The first "patron" project I ever backed was Wolfgang Baur's first  Kobold Publishing product. There was a time that I ...

It happened approximately one month before the Great Sweet Pickles Bus War of 7th grade. My friend Mark and I had been competing over...

Over the course of the next few weeks, I will be discussing how some games balance their desire to simulate a certain activity with the n...

I have always had warm feelings for Rick Loomis' game company Flying Buffalo .  When I was a young gamer whose pool of friends included ...

Where to begin...where to begin? I have long been a big believer in independent projects and fan supported endeavors, especially in the ho...

In the almost 40 years that role playing games have been around, a number of traditional mechanics have evolved in order to simulate how arm...

A couple of posts ago, I mentioned that some of my first gaming experiences were running "solo" runs of characters through The Kee...

Those who play Role Playing Games as a hobby know that it isn't always easy to find a group of like minded enthusiasts in order to form ...

The Role Playing Game hobby is approaching its 40th anniversary. Like any phenomenon that has been around for any good length of time, the ...

One of the advantages to having a multi-talented wife is that when you ask if she might have the time to draw a troll dressed like Sherlock ...