Back in the Labyrinth

What the heck is 'old-school,' anyway?  There are lots of different opinions, and definitions vary widely throughout the old-school ...

After nearly ten years of running 3E campaigns, using personal initiative rolls for combat became so deeply ingrained that it became second ...

Fearing that a great trove of treasure remained yet undiscovered, the party elected to defer their obligation to the sinister mage-priest, F...

A Lazarus taxon is a group of organisms that was believed to have gone extinct but turns out to have persisted, undetected, in small numbers...

I'm not a big fan of demi-humans in my fantasy campaigns.  They just don't seem to mesh well with the sword & sorcery genre I li...

I want to take the opportunity to plug Pookie's blog, Reviews from R'lyeh , which provides detailed and insightful reviews of many g...

The world of Faeridor was my first attempt at building a coherent and detailed campaign setting; it began, as many home-made settings do, sm...