The Best Villains Money can Buy

I own seventeen monster manuals, tombs, and guides across a variety of systems and editions that now clutter up my gaming shelf - the vast majority of which haven't been opened in years. The monsters that fill these volumes range from the common flesh and blood variety, so gauche, to clockwork creations that move about…

An Introduction to the “Amazing Engine,” the Role-Playing Game to Conquer Them All that Never Did

In the early 1990s the game studio that had brought the world Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), TSR Inc., found itself faced with a growing number of competitors who were often challenging the company for dominance in the role-playing game market. One of these competitors, Steve Jackson Games, had produced a wildly successful role-playing game called…

Welcome to Dragons Never Forget

If you're new to this blog, and if you're reading this you almost certainly are, then I suppose introductions are in order. What you're looking at is an eclectic mix of all the things that I find fascinating about role-playing games. You'll find discussions of esoteric rules; polemics about my favorite aspects of various games;…