The Non-Player

" Poetic Dungeon and Hex Keying " (Monsters and Manuals) considers a versification of dungeon descriptions. Your humble critic bel...

From Mount Waterman and steep Mount Wilson with its great observatory and hundred-inch reflector down through cavernous Tojunga Canyon with ...

G.K. Chesterton's first book of essays, The Defendant , contains a short piece entitled " A Defense of Penny Dreadfuls ." ...

The "random table" has been an emerging poetic form since Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Good ...

Previously: Part I II. Nightstone The first section of the adventure, which takes place in a village called Nightstone, is meant to be unnec...

" A Taxonomy of Roleplaying Utterances " (Trilemma Adventures) is an unexpected and possibly unnecessary approach to over-theorizi...

Gary Gygax's Dungeon Masters Guide  included the famous "Appendix N," a list of fantasy and science-fiction writers and books ...

  Storm King's Thunder by Christopher Perkins, et al. Wizards of the Coast, 256 pages, $50 (hardcover) The literary critic of RPG texts ...

Mark out a triangle and label its vertices "fantasy," "science fiction," and "horror." You will find that most...

Me detuve, como es natural, en la frase: "Dejo a los varios porvenires (no a todos) mi jardín de senderos que se bifurcan." Casi e...