The Mystical Trash Heap

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...

The post on The Abduction of Good King Despot got me thinking about Gary Gygax's other venture into "wackiness," the divisive...

As a kid I attended several gaming conventions - my home-town sponsored two (Glathricon, an all-gaming con, in the summer, and ConTact, a mo...

The World of Greyhawk includes a large number of nation-states. While the gazetteer does a good job of providing population figures and nat...

My favorite rock band in the 80s (at least the second half of the decade, when I had an opinion on such things) was unquestionably Iron Maid...