24 June 2025

Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms Kickstarter: 3 days left

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I don’t support many kickstarters these days but I’m making an exception for this one: Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms, the Northern Marche...
17 June 2025

Reflections on Middle-earth Roleplaying, Rolemaster, Against the Darkmaster, and Art

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Back when I was a young lad and able to devote much of my time to role-playing games (late middle-school and high-school), I tried out a wid...
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07 May 2025

OSRIC the Third

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The wise sages at Mythmere Games are hard at work on the third version of OSRIC (“Old School Reference and Index Compilation”). You can sup...
06 May 2025

Bundle of Holding – Against the Darkmaster

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Until May 26th you can get all the PDFs in the Against the Darkmaster “ Bundle of Holding ” starter set – the impressive core rulebook + th...
30 March 2025

Praise for Songs of the Dying Earth

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Among my favourite works of fantasy fiction are the Dying Earth stories and the Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. I’ve read the Lyonesse tril...
28 March 2025

My 2 Campaigns in 2 Paragraphs

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Over at the RPG pub (the only RPG forum I regularly visit these days) there’s an interesting thread asking people to describe their campaig...
26 February 2025

Fight On! Issue 16 now available – dedicated to DA Trampier

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One of the best things to happen in the “old school” gaming community in the past year is the return of the amazing fanzine Fight On!   Issu...
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18 February 2025

‘Level Up’ exhibit at the Chicago Writers Museum

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While Toronto is my ‘home base’ these days, as my wife and I own a condo there (and her job is based there), I also currently live part of t...
02 February 2025

A Brief History of Ukrasia

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This post provides a rough overview and timeline for the World of Ukrasia (the setting for my “ Against the Court of Urdor ” campaign). The...
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29 January 2025

The Lord of the Rings film trilogy with live music

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This was one of the most enjoyable experiences I’ve had in recent years: watching Peter Jackson’s film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings , acco...