Roleplaying Games
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 4: Manual of the Planes (First Edition)
If Gary Gygax’s first Dragon article announcing the existence of other planes of reality in his game’s multiverse was Planescape’s big bang, the origination of everything that would one day become central to that…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 3: Dragon Magazine
Given that Dungeons & Dragons‘ concept of the planes of reality was originally cooked up in an issue of Dragon Magazine, it’s no surprise that most of the early development of what this really…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 2: Dungeons & Dragons Gets Advanced
Most people did not play, and for that matter have never even seen copies of, the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons. The original box set’s first printing was only a thousand copies, and…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 1: Gary Gygax’s Goofy Proposition
The original Dungeons & Dragons may be the progenitor of modern roleplaying games, but it has very little actual roleplaying in it. Which isn’t to claim that I was alive back when it came…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 0: Introduction
When I returned home to Albuquerque after more than a decade living elsewhere, it was in the midst of the still-ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.[su_tooltip style=”dark” position=”north” shadow=”yes” size=”2″ content=”As I write this, we’re still there,…
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