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Dragon 104 (December, 1985). Cover by Denis Beauvais. A pretty fantastic mage in his tower. Note the bottle of Coca-Cola. ¶ #RPG #TTRPG #TabletopRPG #roleplayinggame #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #DragonMagazine #DenisBeauvais

I love Hollow World. Deep irony here, because I kind of hate how versions of real world cultures crept into Forgotten Realms, and here I am being all “The Known World, which is a collection of fantasified real world cultures is the best” but taste is weird like that. ¶ Hollo…

Dragon 94 (February, 1985). Clyde Caldwell back after a fairly lengthy break. This one doesn’t do anything for me. I kinda like the little possum guy with his little dagger and backpack and stuff, but I always read him as being part tree — like this branches are somehow his …

The first Star Frontiers adventure, SF0: Crash on Volturnus, is included in the box set. Spoiler: the players crash on Volturnus and have to seek safety. The scenario ends with them coming through a trial by combat in order to join a native tribal group. SF1: Volturnus, Plan…

Dragon 82 (February, 1984). Another cover by Jerry Eaton. Much more into this one than the one on the front of Dragon 71. Despite my reservations about that one, I do love the fact that we have a series of paintings in development here that boils down to “mage casts spell th…

Halls of the Blood King (2021) is by Diogo Nogueira and illustrated by Justine Jones. I keep asking “How weird can OSE get?” and this one starts to answer it in gloriously gothic fashion. ¶ The Blood King’s castle manifests, Krull-like, during the blood moon eclipse, from wh…

Champions III (1984) is cut from the same cloth as Champions II — it is still a weird potpourri of stuff, but it is also a little bit older and wiser and well-organized now. There are new powers (wait, shapeshifting wasn’t an option before?), new disadvantages, lots more rec…

Dragon 70 (February, 1983). Haunting Dean Morrissey on the cover. ¶ #RPG #TTRPG #TabletopRPG #roleplayinggame #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #DragonMagazine #DeanMorrissey

Cthulhu Fhtagn! This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we check out Chaosium’s new Call of Cthulhu sourcebook, Cults of Cthulhu. Despite the big squid being in the title of the game, the Great Old One is oddly absent in the majority of the RPG’s material, partly because he’s …

Longwinter: Referee’s Book (2021) is the second volume of Luke Rejec’s chilly OSR adventure/setting. This one, as the title implies, is eyes only for the GM. I shan’t spoil it. Suffice it to say that while the valley and the mountains and towns described in volume one offer …