Category: Lamentations of the Grognard

Irregular musings on Role Playing Games and the Role Playing Game industry and culture. Including reviews, reminiscences and ramblings.

The Late Late Late Show

You know them, you love them. The guilty pleasure, b-list (or worse) horror movies that are so low budget they are more comedies than horror. From...

The End Was Near

Ages ago, before the modern times, the world was very different. The earth, and all of humanity, were battered and punished almost daily. Again and...

Living in Yesterdays Future

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Neuromancer by William Gibson. This book takes place in a dystopian near future and was, for many, the...

Rise of the Arch-Lich

In the mid 90’s I watched with horror as the hobby I had devoted half my life to at that time, died a slow painful death...

The Other N-Word

When I was young, my friends and I would spend lunch break in the library. Why the library? Because it was the safest place in...

30 Years of Dark Dungeons

  In 1984 Chick Publications released the Dark Dungeons comic pamphlet. Chick had been in business for 10 years at this point making religious themed...

Gary Gygax Day and 40 years of D&D

Summer break 1983, a 10 year old boy sits at a card table in a basement. His mace does only 1D6 points of damage, but...