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What we really look like
Posted on March 16, 2010 | 3 CommentsAccording to DM Bill, Jayson sounds like Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, and Nick sounds like Drew Carey. He didn’t give Vince a dopplegänger, but Vince did do a pretty... -
Email: Why Laptops are great!
Posted on March 15, 2010 | 5 CommentsRecently, we got an email from a listener named Tom, who supported using laptops during his AD&D 1e game, here is what he had to say: I am currently running... -
A Robish Percentile
Posted on January 21, 2010 | 2 CommentsSo you finally let your players get a hold on The Robe of Useful Items, now what. Think about it. Do you want to come up with an item each time a player opens a pocket? -
Article – The Dungeonmaster Has Died
Posted on December 9, 2009 | No CommentsOne 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. -
Article – 1972 Gary Gygax Wargamer’s Newsletter
Posted on December 7, 2009 | No CommentsReader Jervis Johnson kindly sent along the following short article by Gary Gygax, published in the October 1972 (No. 127) issue of Wargamer's Newsletter. There's no copyright statement on the issue from which this is taken, but it's assumed to be copyrighted to Donald Featherstone, who began this venerable periodical in 1962.
