01 January 2026

May the Dice be Kind to You in 2026

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Me, when some of my graduate students tell me that they are into role-playing games: Me, when it becomes clear that by "role-playing ga...
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27 December 2025

An Old School Warhammer Against the Darkmaster in 2026

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I thought I would mention here that the guys at Open Ended Games have posted a short (~23 minutes) end-of-year "Questions & Answer...
23 December 2025

The Sorrows of Young Efric (Lyonesse RPG)

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As I mentioned recently, I’ve started playing in a Lyonesse campaign. I’m quite excited about this, as Jack Vance’s Lyonesse trilogy is am...
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07 December 2025

Fight On! Issue 17 now available

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As noted months ago here , the Old School Renaissance fanzine Fight On!  has experienced its own renaissance. After spending a decade in a m...
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01 November 2025

Mystery surge of blog visits in August 2025

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Over the course of this blog’s sixteen years of life, it typically has received in the range of 5,000 – 10,000 page visits per month. A hand...
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24 October 2025

Crypts and Things for Zothique

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I’m somewhat embarrassed that, in my recent post about the current Zothique kickstarter , that I failed to mention the excellent “Old Schoo...
21 October 2025

Zothique kickstarter

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I’ve long been a great fan of Clark Ashton Smith’s fiction, especially his fantasy stories set in Hyperborea, Averoigne, and Zothique. Indee...
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19 October 2025

To Do List: Middle-earth and Greyhawk campaign notes; a new Lyonesse character

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I’ve sadly neglected this blog over the past two months. But I have not been (entirely) idle – indeed, I’ve been quite busy running my two c...
25 August 2025

Against the Starmaster: Playtest materials available

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I thought that I would mention that there is a space opera version of Against the Darkmaster coming out. It’s called (somewhat unsurprising...
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27 July 2025

Against the Court of Urdor – Part 5

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Misty Vale, Queen Blàithnaid’s Elfstone, and the Warden’s Pendant  [Map of the Cursed Lands] Our heroes – Einar Quicksilver , the Green El...