How can you describe Jennell Jaquays in a few sentences. An acclaimed game designer, one of the pioneers from the early days of gaming who invented a new way to
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System: Lamentations of the Flame Princess/OSR Compatible Level: Low to Medium Designer: Andrew Marrington Publisher: Grimm Aramil Publishing Price: $2.99 (PDF), $10.99 (POD hardcopy + PDF) from Driv e thruRPG.
I’m a huge fan of the Hero System (a tabletop roleplaying game for those wandering souls who’ve found this blog without knowing much about tabletop RPGs). Hero is not the
In Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition we referred briefly to medieval attitudes towards homosexuality and to an active gay scene in the 11th and 12th centuries. This article explores homosexuality
‘To mortal fields say farewell, Middle-earth forsaking! In Elvenhome a clear bell in the high tower is shaking. Here grass fades and leaves fall, and sun and moon wither, and
One aspect of the diversity of medieval life we did not address in Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition concerns genderqueer people. This article is intended to correct that omission, in
Common factoids (things that look like facts but aren’t) about the Middle Ages are that people of colour didn’t exist in medieval Europe, that women didn’t fight (or do much
I really don’t need an excuse not to update this blog, as I can go years without posting. But for what it’s worth, the last few months have been taken
The Kickstarter campaign for Chivalry & Sorcery 5th Edition is well underway, and I’m proud to be associated with it. It achieved funding in less than 16 hours and, as
About three years ago I wrote a post about my love-hate relationship with Dangerous Journeys, the game Gary Gygax designed after leaving TSR. Since then I’ve had the pleasure of