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Imagine Magazine: Issue #6 11 Dec 2012 | 08:41 pm
Issue #6 of Imagine dates from September 1983 and features cover art by Emmanuel, who's probably best known in D&D circles for having provided the cover to the Fiend Folio, though he also did a lot of...
Imagine Magazine: Issue #5 29 Nov 2012 | 07:58 pm
Issue #5 of Imagine appeared in August 1983 and features a rather striking cover by Tony O'Donnell. In general, I've found the covers of Imagine much more compelling to me than those of Dragon. They'r...
Tenuous Golden Ages 28 Nov 2012 | 02:08 am
Over on Google+, Chris Kutalik shared some photos of an old TSR board game called Knights of Camelot. I never owned the game myself, but I remember it well from ads I saw in the catalogs included with...
Starting a Meme 27 Nov 2012 | 10:34 pm
As a general rule, I'm not a big fan of Internet memes. My eyes tend to glaze over whenever everyone's blog is posting and re-posting the same stuff or variations on it -- some of the wags out there a...
New Popular Edition 27 Nov 2012 | 08:40 pm
At the back of issue #6 of Imagine (I'll be posting about issue #5 later today), there's this advertisement: That's obviously the 1983 Frank Mentzer-edited Basic Rules, with which I'm familiar. But t...
More OSR Links of Awesomeness 27 Nov 2012 | 02:52 am
Back at the end of September, I made a post in which I directed readers to eight blogs that presented material from some awesomely diverse campaigns settings. That post proved extremely popular, so, w...
ASE 2-3 Now Available 26 Nov 2012 | 11:40 pm
Though the news of this has already spread far and wide -- or, at least, I hope it has -- I'd nevertheless like to make everyone aware that the second volume of Patrick Wetmore's terrifically gonzo po...
Pulp Fantasy Library: On Thud and Blunder 26 Nov 2012 | 11:19 pm
I'm firmly of the opinion that it's no mistake Dungeons & Dragons was published when it was. The late '60s saw a huge literary revival of pulp fantasy, thanks in no small part to the Ballantine Adult ...
REVIEW: The Magnificent Joop van Ooms 22 Nov 2012 | 07:39 pm
Reviewing almost anything James Raggi writes poses unique challenges, but it's his adventures that are particularly troublesome to me. Partly, it's because Raggi's understanding of and approach to fan...
Luke Gygax Speaks 22 Nov 2012 | 04:39 am
Over at the comments to my earlier post, Gary Gygax's son, Luke, one of the principals behind the new TSR Games and Gygax magazine, had this to say: At this time Gail is not part of Gygax Magazine. ...
