Periodically, in my musings on D&D, I feel the need to create a new thief / rogue class, often mixing in elements of other rogue types ...

A small house rule which I've been using in a slightly modified form in my recent Victorian horror campaign (which reached an unexpected...

Inspired by the release of the Basic/Expert rules at dndclassics.com, there's been a bit of discussion going around about "is this ...

I believe for the first time ever, the 1981 Cook/Marsh D&D Expert set is now for sale as a PDF at dndclassics.com ! I already have the ...

I recently bought my first ever WotC-published D&D product... The Moldvay Basic rules (PDF). Looks like the Expert rulebook is coming ...

I had a chargen session last night with two players, one of whom has never played an RPG before. (Though he has played computer RPGs, which ...

Amazon just kindly informed me of the release of the Premium D&D 3.5 Player's Handbook . First thing I noticed: that's quite c...

An interesting post from Mike Mearls over at the WotC site about magic items , and the first thing I've read about D&D Next which so...

After a year or more (I can't remember how long exactly) of only playing versions of old-school D&D, I played in a Savage Worlds g...

Yeah, so as you may guess from the title of this post, I wasn't at all impressed by the D&D Next playtest rules. As I've seen so...

Sorry, I've not given it a chance yet at all, but: fire beetles have 7 CHA! Hahaha. Hilarious :D (My first reaction on reading the D...

As I recently mentioned , I've been running James Raggi's the Grinding Gear for a small group. I've been running the module as...

I am about to perform two gaming related activities for the very first time this morning. 1. Run an adventure module which I bought rather...

Yes, the obligatory 5e post ;) My reaction is: I have a kind of theoretical interest in what WotC might get up to with D&D 5e, but oth...

I was recently asked by the guy who's organising the con I'm running a game at if I'd like to write something about old-school ...

Somewhere from the recesses of my mind came a vision of the classic ZX Spectrum game Manic Miner . I loved playing that as a kid, even thoug...

I recently played a d20 based game (Call of Cthulhu, in fact), and found myself amused and frustrated by the fact that our 1st level charact...

As readers of this blog have no doubt noticed by now, I like lots of spells with my D&D :) One of my favourite supplemental books for D...

So I'll be running Labyrinth Lord tomorrow, for the first time. Though, of course, it's not at all like running a game for the first...

I experienced the pleasure of the Basic D&D random dungeon room contents table last week, as I was stocking the cellars and tunnels that...