I thought I'd share this write-up for a monster which I finished recently. It's noteworthy for two reasons: firstly, it was my winni...

A few weeks back, I wrote a post which sketched out an idea for a rogue class to replace (and subsume) the classic thief and its various sub...

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 ...

Gorgonmilk has offered to take the Petty Gods mantle and get this thing finished. Anyone who contributed content / art, see here !

It seems I'm something of a purist compared to the other people who've posted photos in this meme. The photo to the right  is wha...

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...

Just spreading the word that issues 1-12 of Fight On! are available until Feb 23rd in the form of limited edition hardcover compilations, ...

After Newt at 101 games made the suggestion recently of a UK OSR convention , I've been thinking about it some more. Now, that's not...

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...

2011 was the year I properly launched myself into the OSR. On Jan 16th I DMed my first game of Labyrinth Lord, and that, as they say, was th...

Alex & I have been on a frenzy of creativity, and the result is the shiny new Old-school Monster Wiki ! So far all the monsters from ...

I've recently been musing on the possibility of creating encounter tables for specific dungeon environments -- in the same way as there ...

The only thing I recall winning in my life up till now was tickets to go and see a theatrical version of "The Hobbit" in about 198...

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 ...

I'm starting a little collection here... If you turn your gaze to the bottom of the "widgets" column on the right, you will se...