Canopy is a two-player board game about tropical climes from the creator of The Grimm Forest
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Diversity and Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons teaches that diversity is strength, for only a diverse group of adventurers can overcome the many challenges…
Interview with Matt Wilson from Privateer Press
My guest today is Matt Wilson the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Privateer Press, a miniatures game company. We…
Dungeons & Dragons at a Distance: Early Play-by-Mail D&D
Sometimes, for whatever reason, you can't get together with your Dungeons & Dragons group in person. Long before D&D came out…
Dave Arneson’s Origins 1977 Tournament
The Dungeons & Dragons tournaments run at the 1970s Origins conventions are the stuff of legends: there was the Tomb…
Maude Garrett & How To DM with Noah Grand
We're continuing to record remotely as we shelter in place here in the Seattle area. Greg & Shelly hash out…
Adventurers League Online | Resources
Posted on Mar 13, 2020 | Online tabletop gaming sessions have become increasingly more popular, thanks to online chat and…
Identifying the Dice of the 1970s
[embedded content]How can you recognize a polyhedral gaming die made in the 1970s? The video above gives my tips for…
The Complete OD&D Illusionist
The Illusionist in Dungeons & Dragons was created by Peter Aronson, an early Boston-area fan. In 1975, Aronson submitted an initial…
Artistic Arcana: Scruby Fantasy Miniatures and TSR
Dungeons & Dragons grew out of a tradition of miniature wargaming, and distributors of figurines were among the first companies…
Subterranean Chainmail: Mines and Countermines
Before any daring cartographer mapped underground dungeons in pursuit of fantastic adventure, Chainmail described a system for subterranean tunnels on…
Artistic Arcana: The Impostor Lizardman
Old school Dungeons & Dragons fans know that Greg Bell's beloved lizardman from the inside cover of Greyhawk (1975) served as…
Why Did Armor Class Descend from 9 to 2?
One of the great riddles that has vexed D&D players for generations is this: why did armor class in original…
Missile Fire in Chainmail, courtesy of Charles Sweet
When it comes to unearthing the influences behind Chainmail (1971), Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren's medieval rules with a fantasy…
To-Hit Rolls in Individual Medieval Combat, from Phil Barker to Chainmail
Just months before Chainmail came out, when Gary Gygax put together the seventh issue of the Domesday Book, he included…
Mordenkainen, in 1974 and today.
This weekend at the Wizards of the Coast "Stream of Many Eyes" event I got my hands on a copy…
D&D in the News (1978): Funny Dice in Iowa, with Zeb Cook
"We're known down here as the strange people with the funny dice," begins Bob Waltman, describing the reputation of the…
From Arbela to Alexander: Gygax’s Ancient Board Wargame
In the early days of gaming, a title could pass through a lot of hands before making its way to…
Vintage Ad: 1980 Do-It-Yourself Edition
Early in 1980, TSR Hobbies circulated a slender booklet containing graphics and copy for hobby stores to reuse when advertising…
War of the Empires (1969), Gygax’s Space Conquest Campaign
Two years before Chainmail was released, and a year before there was a Castle & Crusade Society, Gary Gygax was…
Vintage Ad: Does Your Shop Sell Military Miniatures?
Early in 1976, no one had any idea that Dungeons & Dragons would go on to transform the gaming hobby.…
A Forgotten Variant: Sir Pellinore’s Game
Of the gamers who assembled and self-published variant fantasy role-playing rules in the 1970s, few showed the dedication of Michael…
D&D in the News (1976): The Duke and the Evil Balrog
Early press about D&D rarely has the luxury of wading deep into the play of ongoing campaigns. That is what…
Gary Gygax on “Tomorrow” with Tom Snyder (1979)
It was early in November 1979: the publication of the Dungeon Masters Guide had recently completed the core Advanced Dungeons &…