Hobgoblinry

I've long marvelled at Spooktalker's superb conversions of old Grenadier orcs - "the pig-faced orcs that never were", as ...

I love Lord Dunsany's fantasy stories - not least because some of them make excellent bedtime stories for children. I've read mine T...

In a recent post , I went on at some length about shields. Armour and shields, I think, should be an important part of a risk/reward trade-o...

A half-term walk in the Northumberland countryside today took us along the Devil's Water, past the Duke's House and down Gallows Ban...

My first RPG was the second edition of Runequest, which I got when I was still at primary school - for my ninth birthday, I think. Runequest...

A detail of D&D monster descriptions that's long intrigued me is "number appearing". In OD&D, goblins and kobolds are ...

I've been meaning to start this blog for a good year or two now. The chief topics will be books, monsters and fantasy games, but other w...