Hobgoblinry

This follows on from the previous post . If the underworld into which your players venture is actually Hell, there are some interesting ...

I've been doing a bit of genre-fantasy slumming by reading Michael Shea's Nifft the Lean . It's quite the most D&D book ...

This is a question I often think about : why isn't the best skirmish-wargame system also the best RPG combat system? There are some ob...

Noisms has just posted a typically thought-provoking blog on books: "Before the printing press, books were rare". It's an e...

In an earlier post , I noted that the "numbers appearing" in OD&D's monster descriptions are very high - running into...

When I got back into gaming a few years ago, the thing that struck me as strangest about contemporary RPGs was the assumption that you p...

Two more Chronicle hobgoblins and one more Nack Tryber (with the crossbow). Like Beowulf's dragon (or Smaug) missing a cup, I am pa...