After a small break we are back! In sage advice we answer some emails, feature 1 we talk about Divine intervention, in the Creature Feature we speak of Flolites, Playing…
The book in our library this week is Quag Keep, the first novel ever written in a Dungeons & Dragons setting. I stated that this book was out of print,…
The beholder is one of the oldest and most enduring icons from AD&D, and we felt it appropriate to bring it up during one of our early episodes. In fact,…
We're not collectors, we're players - but that means our TSR books end up with wear and tear, and can even lose their binding. If you're pulling out dusty tomes…
Week number 3 talks about re-binding your old hardcover books, and features a mysterious scroll delivered from the world of Greyhawk... This week's chapters: Re-binding your books Letters From Greyhawk:…
The interview in show #2 is with Erik Brynjolffson, creator of Dragonfire and Dragonfire II: The Dungeonmaster's Assistant. These days, Erik is the Schussel Professor of Management at the MIT…
Our Stickler's Spotlight this week focuses on unarmed combat by the book (the DMG, that is) and by other means. For more discussion of grappling, pummeling and overbearing, here are…
Mordenkainen's AD&D statistics were first published in The Rogues Gallery (1980). His statistics were updated in Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure (1984), The City of Greyhawk (1989), and Epic Level Handbook (2002).
The Robe of Useful Items is an original DMG magic item, sure to be familiar to old-school players, but one which provides ample opportunity for customization by the creative DM.…
Aside from the Players Handbook and Dungeon Masters Guide (put down that Unearthed Arcana!), look for some of the following Dragon articles for interesting insights and alternate perspectives on the…
The Automaton comes from Dragon magazine #101. It's one of my favorite monsters, just because of the limitless options for what it can be made of, and the great fun…
One of the seminal influences in fantasy in the twentieth century has left us for Valhalla. Gygax was a giant, a man whose enthusiasm and sense of adult play took a weird cerebral offshoot of board and strategy games and turned it into an accessible, endlessly stimulating, life-changing mythology for the Star Wars/Lancer Conan/”Frodo Lives!” generation of the 1970s and 80s.