Understanding the OSR

The OSR has established itself as a part of the RPG landscape. Regardless what you may think of it, it isn’t going away. After years of fractious arguments, divisions and uninformed hot air, I realized I haven’t made my contribution. It’s never too late to add fuel to the fire. Read more

An Echo, Resounding

An Echo, Resounding was written by Kevin Crawford in 2012 for Labyrinth Lord, a house-ruled clone of B/X Dungeons & Dragons. It attempts the laudable goal of adding domain level play to the B/X rule set. Domain level play was an assumed part of early editions of Dungeons & Dragons Read more

14 “Facts” About D&D

On March 31st the morbidly clueless Smithsonian Institution offered us 14 “facts” about Dungeons & Dragons as a puff piece promoting Hasbro’s D&D movie. I can’t think of a funnier way to spend time than looking over these “facts”. Let’s see how many they get right. 3 wrong, 9 right Read more