A blog about the World of Greyhawk, tabletop RPGs, wargames, and pop culture
The third issue of the play-by-mail e-zine “Suspense and Decision” is now available. I’ve got to say, for a subset of the gaming hobby which was supposedly defunct, there sure seems to be a lot of material to write about. Read More
The second issue of the play-by-mail game magazine, Suspense and Decision, is now available as a free download. It has a ton of articles, reminisces, and even ads for still-running PBM games! Want to get some actual letters in your Read More
There’s a new free pdf ‘zine available that focuses on play-by-mail games. PBM games were big in the 1980’s and 90’s, and I was heavily involved in them myself, both as a player and a moderator. Suspense & Decision magazine Read More
One of our standard go-to games when I was in high school was Avalon Hill’s Diplomacy. This is a game that has very deep roots in both the wargaming and RPG community, as one of the few ways back in Read More
One of the standard tropes of 1950’s/60’s science fiction was the Imperial future. That was embodied in Issac Asimov’s Foundation books (as well as many others such as Dune), and was pretty much the standard for many years. In the Read More
Dragons are, of course, as iconic a piece of the game as can be imagined. Hell, they make up half the name. Dragon magazine came up with a few excellent ideas for the scaly beasts: I note with particular fondness Read More
TGN – Tabletop Gaming News
