Wednesday, May 31, 2017

The Dungeon as Mythic Underworld

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The Darkness Beneath, published in serial form in the magazine Fight On! There has been some interesting blogging on megadungeons, rece...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Jeffro Johnson on Margaret St. Clair

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Margaret St. Clair I'm an opponent of the politicization of gaming, just as I'm an opponent of the politicization of fantasy a...
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Sunday, May 28, 2017

Jeffro Johnson on Old School vs. New School

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Old School fun (uncredited illustration from the Basic Fantasy RPG) In a recent post at Castalia House , Jeffro Johnson critiques som...
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Monday, May 22, 2017

Jeffro Johnson's Appendix N: Preview to a Review

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I'm midway through reading Jeffro Johnson 's Appendix N: a Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons , published by Castalia Hou...
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Friday, May 19, 2017

On Player Agency, Old School vs. New School and Published Adventures

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"Er, thanks, but I think I'd just rather rescue Hekaton."* *Dungeon map by Tim Hartin at Paratime Design . The blogger,...
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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Tim Kask's 2nd Game of D&D - "I'm a lord! Wow, this is too cool!"

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Gen Con XII, 1979. From left to right: Tim Kask and the Holmes family - Chris, Sig-Linda and John Eric It's so easy to forget how -...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Tim Kask's First Experience Playing D&D Was a Bizarre and Befuddling TPK

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Elise Gygax and Tim Kask at Gen Con XI, 1978 This is a neat story. It actually tracks my own first experience of Dungeons & Dr...
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