The Mystical Trash Heap

Going into some deeply obscure Gygaxiana: back in 2006 The Believer magazine published a long profile on Gary Gygax. The whole thing is wor...

This magical artifact was described by Gary Gygax in Isle of the Ape : Amidst the gems and magicks we bore out from the depths of Castle ...

Many folks reading this are probably already aware, but a few may not be, of the "AD&D Companion" document that I compiled las...

EUDAIMON FREQUENCY: Very rare NO. APPEARING: 1-3 ARMOR CLASS: 2 MOVE: 9”/15” (MC: B) HIT DICE: 3+3 % IN LAIR: 5% TREASURE TY...

As I've mentioned before, I was part of the second (or even third) generation of D&D kids, and didn't have much notion of fant...

Seemingly everybody but me hates the AD&D cavalier class, introduced by Gary Gygax in Dragon #72 (April 1983) and later canonized in Un...

So, umm, this blog was born out of a really slow patch at work; being bored and having a lot of extra free time sitting in front of a comput...