gary gygax

Ben Riggs has been working on this history of post-Gygax TSR for quite a while. Slated for release in July. https://read.macmillan.com/lp/slaying-the-dragon/ Role-playing game historian Ben Riggs unveils the secret history of TSR― the company that unleashed imaginations with Dungeons &...

Jon Peterson is sure to piss off many a self-declared internet expert on the hobby's history with this one me thinks. Will be interesting to see the more rabid Gygax and Arneson partisans weeping and gnashing their teeth as several sacred cows are slaughtered. I am such a huge nerd as this...

Tell the truth Chainmail never grabbed me as a ruleset but this doc from the Garycon crew on it looks good and features the co-designer Jeff Perin.

I was looking at the Gygax vs Reality topic. I don't really have anything to comment or add there, but it did spawn a random thought that the more I turned it over and around, I couldn't help but feel was true. Kevin Siembieda was a better RPG creator than Gary Gygax. I dunno. I'll leave my...

A spin-off from the RuneQuest thread, where BlackWolf called attention to this article by Gary Gygax in an early issue of "The Dragon" Curious, I hunted down a copy of the article. And wow, is it a doozy. At once a strange glimpse into the mind of Gygax when D&D was rapidly vaulting towards...