Tag: Dungeons and Dragons

Saturday Morning Adventures

  Saturday morning, September 17th, 1983. One week before my 11th birthday and only a few weeks after I’d first played Dungeons and Dragons, CBS...

What Comes Around…

The June post was supposed to be about the classic 1984 Marvel Super Heroes RPG from TSR. Only this isn’t June, and this post isn’t about...

Wild West Adventure

“Boot Hill is full of fellows who pulled their triggers without aiming” It was early 1988, I was staying over at my friend Dan’s house for...

Hyborian Hazards

  “Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the...

Grognards Gift Guide

It’s that time of year, and odds are you’re thinking about gifts. Either gifts to buy for that special geek in your life or you’re rounding...

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...

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...