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(Repost from September 27, 2018; revised) Brian Froud and Alan Lee’s Faeries is a book that seemed to be everywhere when I was a kid, even on the shelves of boring old people who didn’t seem particularly interested in monsters or D&D. ¶ Faeries (the second in a trio of books…

Here’s the first issue of Pagan Publishing’s The Unspeakable Oath (December, 1990). It was written almost entirely by John Tynes, editor, owner and publisher (who has since gone on to have a colorful career in games of all sorts). It sets the template for TUOs to come — deep…

Castles Book II (originally 1978, this printing later, probably 1981) is a bit better than Village Book 1 in that the castle filled hexes look thought out and interesting. I could get use out of these, with a little work. I still have trouble reading them. The hex lines need…

Are you afraid of the dark? You're gonna be after you play Campfire. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we talk to @worldchampgameco and @WillJobst about their Kickstarter for their new storytelling horror game, featuring art by the one and only @TrevorHenderson. Check it…

Different Worlds 6 (December/January 1980) sports a fun cover by Rick Becker, one of many artists in the early days who seems to have done one or two pieces for RPGs then vanished, but who might also be fine art painters now, though I can’t confirm it. ¶ Not much jumping out…

Ares 4 (September, 1980). Holy crap this cover, right? That’s an early work of Joe Jusko. I love everything about it. Arena of Death is one of only a handful of supporting materials created from DragonQuest, which seems a shame. ¶ #RPG #TTRPG #TabletopRPG #roleplayinggame #D…

The world is dying. Will you rage hopelessly against the end or cower in robbed graves in your final days? That's the central question of Mörk Borg, the heaviest metal RPG we have encountered thus far (which says something, considering the connection between Bolt Thrower and…

Building off our recent episode on Chivalry & Sorcery, this week on the Vintage RPG Podcast we look at another realistic medieval RPG world, N. Robin Crossby's Hârn. Unlike C&S, though, Hârn was originally created as a system agnostic setting. That'd change later, with the H…

(Repost from December 12, 2018; revised) Dragon 36’s cover is by one of my faves, Dean Morrissey. This guy does dark like nobody else. This is positively murky. The petrified mage is spooky as all get out and I get pleasantly Grey Mouser vibes from the swordsman. ¶ Morrissey…

The Guardians series of novels by Peter Saxon (not a real person – Saxon was a house name that several authors wrote under) isn’t in Appendix N, but The Haunting of Alan Mais (1968) has a great cover painting by Jeffrey Catherine Jones so I figured why not? ¶ The Guardians b…