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https://grognardia.blogspot.com/ GROGNARDIA Musings and Memories from a Lifetime of Roleplaying grognardia https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2020/09/imagine-magazine-issue-12.html?m=1 GROGNARDIA: Imagine Magazine: Issue #12 It's true that, over the course of its run, Dragon magazine had a lot of exceptional covers, many of which I continue to hold in high regard... imagine magazine grognardia issue https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/04/retrospective-merc-2000.html GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: Merc: 2000 The last six months of 1989 marked the beginning of the end of Communism in Eastern Europe and, with it, the Cold War. Between June, when So... grognardia retrospective merc https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/04/speak-to-me-of-mrq.html GROGNARDIA: Speak to Me of MRQ I am extremely unlikely to purchase any of Mongoose's RuneQuest products these days, owing to their expense and the fact that I won't have t... speak to me grognardia mrq https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2011/10/hargravian-oddity.html GROGNARDIA: A Hargravian Oddity I'm not an uncritical admirer of Dave Hargrave's Arduin Grimoire series. There's a lot of creativity in the pages of these books, but also a... grognardia oddity https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/03/musings-on-poll-results-part-ii.html GROGNARDIA: Musings on Poll Results (Part II) With two more polls closed, let's take a look at the results, starting with when were you first introduced to roleplaying games ? When I pos... poll results grognardia musings part ii https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/09/golden-age-is-now.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: The Golden Age is Now Reader Jay Dugger pointed me toward this essay, "The Golden Age of Wargaming is Now," by Eric S. Raymond, thinking I'd find it both interes... the golden age grognardia https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-secrets-of-sha-arthan-alignment.html GROGNARDIA: The Secrets of sha-Arthan: Alignment (The following is an excerpt from the current draft of the rules for my Secrets of sha-Arthan science fantasy setting. I typically only sha... the secrets grognardia sha alignment https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2021/07/pulp-fantasy-library-fortress.html GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth Were I to be so bold as to enumerate the commonest elements of fantasy literature, magic swords would almost certainly appear near the top ... fantasy library the fortress grognardia pulp save https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2011/06/ads-of-dragon-star-trek-role-playing.html GROGNARDIA: The Ads of Dragon: Star Trek: The Role Playing Game Issue #70 (February 1983) contains a particularly memorable advertisement for me personally. I knew -- and loved -- FASA because of their e... the ads dragon star role playing grognardia trek https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/08/layout-update.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Layout Update I'm going to cease fiddling with the blog for the next little while and let what I've got sink in before making any additional changes. Even... grognardia layout update https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/10/dwimmermount-session-19.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Dwimmermount Session 19 The Dwimmermount campaign has been on something of a hiatus in recent weeks, owing to a concatenation of real world distractions on the part... grognardia session https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-harsh-sentence.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: A Harsh Sentence Kyrinn Eis recently reminded me of this vaporware game from my youth, Imperial Earth . It was advertised in issue #118 (February 1987) of ... grognardia harsh sentence https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/08/big-swords-wizardry-news.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Big Swords & Wizardry News According to a post here , Mythmere Games will be "merging" with Frog God Games . August 24, 2010 - Poulsbo WA Frog God Games, the successor... grognardia big swords wizardry news https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2020/11/retrospective-blizzard-pass.html GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: Blizzard Pass Yesterday's post about solo wargames reminded me of something that I had almost forgotten: that, in 1983, TSR published the first of two s... grognardia retrospective blizzard pass https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/02/erol-otus-art-challenge.html GROGNARDIA: Erol Otus Art Challenge Fight On! magazine is again sponsoring a contest in conjunction with Otherworld Miniatures . This time it's an art contest, judged by legend... grognardia erol otus art challenge https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2023/04/not-yet-ultimate-campaigns.html?m=1 GROGNARDIA: Not Yet Ultimate Campaigns In yesterday's post, I talked briefly about the concept of an "ultimate campaign," a RPG campaign so good or so exhaustive in its scope and... not yet grognardia ultimate campaigns https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/09/sci-fi-goulash.html GROGNARDIA: A Sci-Fi Goulash A couple of weeks ago, I asked the question "Why do you think science fiction is a lot less broadly appealing than fantasy as a genre for ro... sci fi grognardia goulash https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2023/08/polyhedron-issue-4.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Polyhedron: Issue #4 Issue #4 of Polyhedron (March 1982) is the first issue to officially bear that title, though it's nowhere to be seen on its cover, which fea... grognardia polyhedron issue https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2021/04/random-roll-dmg-p-87.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Random Roll: DMG, p. 87 On p. 87 of the Dungeon Masters Guide , there's a section entitled "Setting Things in Motion," which provides advice to the Dungeon Master ... grognardia random roll dmg p https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2023/07/review-staffortonshire-trading-company.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: REVIEW: The Staffortonshire Trading Company Works of John Williams Roleplaying games set in the past of the real world, whether played straight or including an element of the fantastical, have always been ha... trading company grognardia review works john https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2008/10/retrospective-village-of-hommlet.html GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: The Village of Hommlet I absolutely adore The Village of Hommlet . There are a lot of reasons why this is so, but I think, more than anything, what I like most abo... the village grognardia retrospective https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/10/still-behind.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Still Behind I'm still catching up on emails, comments, and other correspondence, so my apologies if you're waiting on a response to any of the above fro... grognardia still behind https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/05/performance-anxiety.html GROGNARDIA: Performance Anxiety Late last summer , I first broached the idea of my House of Worms Empire of the Petal Throne campaign finally ending. As regular readers kn... grognardia performance anxiety https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2008/09/restrospective-in-search-of-unknown.html?m=1 GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: In Search of the Unknown The Holmes Basic Set I owned came with module B1 In Search of the Unknown by Mike Carr, better known as the creator of Fight in the Skies ... in search of grognardia retrospective unknown https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/03/conan-villain-cast.html GROGNARDIA: Conan Villain Cast? Joseph Bloch has pointed me toward a report that actor Stephen Lang has been offered the role of the main villain in the upcoming Conan fil... grognardia conan villain cast https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/11/pulp-fantasy-library-swords-of-lankhmar.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: The Swords of Lankhmar If there's a fantasy writer whose books begin more engagingly than those of Fritz Leiber, I've never read them. His 1968 novel, The Swords o... fantasy library the swords grognardia pulp https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2020/10/red-morgan.html?m=1 GROGNARDIA: Red Morgan grognardia red morgan https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/06/creative-process.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: The Creative Process the creative grognardia process https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/03/interesting-times.html GROGNARDIA: Interesting Times One of the things I've always respected about Steve Jackson Games is how forthcoming it is with information about its finances. It's, so fa... grognardia interesting times https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2024/11/vague-recollections.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Vague Recollections One of the many downsides of our increasingly disembodied, virtual existence is the ease with which everything disappears into Orwell's memo... grognardia vague recollections https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2012/01/this-is-how-you-do-it.html GROGNARDIA: This is How You Do It I mentioned the other day that James M. Ward recently made a reprint of Metamorphosis Alpha available through Lulu.com for the very reasona... this is how you do grognardia https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2008/09/review-city-encounters.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: REVIEW: City Encounters grognardia review city encounters https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2012/06/?m=0 GROGNARDIA: June 2012 Musings and Memories from a Lifetime of Roleplaying grognardia june https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2011/10/that-old-school-religion.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: That Old School Religion Recent days have seen quite a few posts on various blogs that I read discussing the potentially contentious issue of the relationship betwee... old school grognardia religion https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-edition-for-drizzt.html GROGNARDIA: What Edition for Drizzt? Over at Cave of Chaos, I ran across a post pointing me to a video I might otherwise not have seen. It's part of a "Meet the Author" series... grognardia edition drizzt https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2023/05/live-or-die-choice-is-yours.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Live or Die: The Choice is Yours! The Sagard the Barbarian gamebooks are interesting artifacts from the mid-1980s. Co-authored by Gary Gygax and Flint Dille, the series cons... live or die the choice grognardia https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2011/10/xp-requirements-as-disincentive.html GROGNARDIA: XP Requirements as (Dis)Incentive Over at Jeff's Gameblog, Mr Rients has a nice post up today about Paul Crabaugh's Dragon article on "Customized Classes." Crabaugh's articl... grognardia xp requirements dis incentive https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2011/09/retrospective-inferno.html GROGNARDIA: Retrospective: Inferno I've talked about my love of Dante in the past, which is why it's odd that I hadn't yet done a retrospective on the 1980 Judges Guild modul... grognardia retrospective inferno https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/09/mutant-scavengers-of-ruined-earth.html GROGNARDIA: Mutant Scavengers of the Ruined Earth Following in the footsteps of Nicolas Dessaux's Searchers of the Unknown , Kyrinn Eis has created her own minimalist RPG, the post-apocalypt... of the grognardia mutant scavengers ruined https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2012/04/very-inspirational.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: "Very inspirational" It's not every day that you get an email from Erol Otus saying that the subject material of his latest illustration, which you provided , wa... grognardia inspirational https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-problem-with-dungeons.html GROGNARDIA: The Problem with Dungeons the problem grognardia dungeons https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/12/pulp-fantasy-library-tower-of-elephant.html GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: The Tower of the Elephant As any fan of Robert E. Howard will likely tell you, having to choose one's favorite Conan story is like having to choose a favorite among o... fantasy library the tower grognardia pulp elephant https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2012/04/pulp-fantasy-library-eyes-of-mavis.html?m=0 GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: The Eyes of Mavis Deval The fifth (of ten) short stories featuring Gardner Fox's Niall of the Far Travels appeared in issue #33 (January 1980) of Dragon , in a sh... fantasy library the eyes grognardia pulp mavis https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/11/dwimmermount-session-57.html GROGNARDIA: Dwimmermount, Session 57 After spending so many sessions trapped in Dwimmermount, I'll admit that I was glad to see the characters free to roam around the wider worl... grognardia session https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-praise-of-jim-roslof.html GROGNARDIA: In Praise of Jim Roslof Michael Curtis's The Dungeon Alphabet is an amazing book, all the more amazing, I think, because it made me reconsider my opinions of two a... in praise of grognardia jim https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2021/05/pulp-fantasy-library-citadel-of-fear.html GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: Citadel of Fear When I began this series at the dawn of this blog, my original intention was to take a closer look at the stories, books, and authors menti... fantasy library grognardia pulp citadel fear https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2021/04/gencon-ix-report.html?m=1 GROGNARDIA: GenCon IX Report Take a look at this. It's an article from the San Francisco Examiner, dated September 5, 1976, describing the events of GenCon IX. How's tha... grognardia gencon ix report https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2020/09/pulp-fantasy-library-bloodstone.html?m=1 GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: Bloodstone I find it hard to believe that, in all the years I've been writing entries in the Pulp Fantasy Library series, I've never written one about... fantasy library grognardia pulp bloodstone https://grognardia.blogspot.com/2008/03/pulp-fantasy-d.html GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy D&D grognardia pulp fantasy