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Ernie Gygax, who should need no introduction to old-school D&D fans, lost his home today to a fire. Apparently no one was injured, but obviously it’s a trying time for him and his roommate. An Ernie Gygax Fire Relief page Read More
Author Jon Peterson was kind enough to send me a review copy of his new book Playing at the World, which bears the wordy subtitle of “A History of Simulating Wars, People, and Fantastic Adventures from Chess to Role Playing Read More
I came across a fascinating paper by Courtney Booker (first published in 2004) which describes how modern minds have a somewhat distorted view of the Middle Ages. Rather than internalizing the pervasive religiosity which defined the Medieval era, we seem Read More
A point that was mentioned obliquely in the comments of my post on non-combat encounters, and which was lampshaded today over at Grognardia, is that the nature of the (A)D&D game was changing, at least in Gygax’s mindset, in the Read More
Courtesy of Wired (and don’t neglect the Gygax Memorial Fund link in the upper-left corner of this blog): Hello from Gen Con, in Indianapolis, the gaming convention where I’ve been hanging this week. I’ve spent some time with the Gygax Read More
Joseph Bloch took the Hardest Gary Gygax Quiz in the World and got 90%! You are a Gary Gygax Lord. Wow, you know a lot about Gary Gygax! My guess is that you are one of those Old School Renaissance Read More
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