Histories of D&D and TSR have become thick on the ground. Representing the gold standard – in terms of completeness, standard of scholarship, and avoiding a slide into hagiography –…

I have a hypothesis: Wizards of the Coast's 5E adventures are for fucking weenies. I know, it's a tall claim to make. Let's prove this throu...

The Gardens of Ynn and The Stygian Library are a pair of depthcrawl mini-campaigns by Emmy “Cavegirl” Allen. It would probably be more accurate to describe them as THE depthcrawl mini-campaigns,

There are several things that you need to know about Kelvin Green. First, he is entirely wrong about which version of Invasion of the Body S...

A small story When I was 12, I was introduced to RPGs. I said "Oh I will make one for Lord of the Rings." I went home and wrote it in a note...

This article is a review of the Mothership RPG, a review of Desert Moon of Karth, and a report on our 8-hour bachelor party adventure. Buckle up, space cowboy!

Where the Wheat Grows Tall A review by Yochai Gal The Introduction Where the Wheat Grows Tall is an old-school adventure for low-level chara...

Devoted to speculative fiction on the page, the screen and the tabletop. Also featured: the OSR and its offshoots, history, literature, architecture.

A Book of Beasts Review by WFS This bestiary is a supplement for a supplement. In 2015, Jason Lutes wrote “ The Perilous Wilds ”, a supple...

Preface Wolves Upon the Coast is a “grand campaign” written by Luke Gearing—of Gradient Descent , Fever Swamp, Acid Death Fantasy , and ma...

Some might say that the unique setting proves detriment to a dungeons utility as a generic or learning dungeon. This might be the case, howe...

One of the things at which the OSR excels is categorization and the creation of jargon to encapsulate these new categories. Though perhaps i...

The book begins with “What is the thing that we call a role-playing game?” Jon Peterson doesn’t answer that question but he did document the first conversations of people attempti…

Below is a shared review of a 2021 adventure released for Old School Essentials: Holy Mountain Shaker , written and illustrated by Luka Reje...