The Rusty Battle Axe

I am a big fan of GURPS DF . I also have very special place in my heart for the Holmes D&D Boxed Set. My original experience with D...

I decided that when I restarted my Rusty Battle Axe blog, I was not going to do reviews. I will, however, occasionally highlight a product...

I started playing Dungeons & Dragons in 1977. I had read about it in the Detroit News , Detroit's afternoon newspaper. There was ...

In the earlier editions of D&D --and the current retroclones/simularica--the management and attrition of hit points are the core element...

I don't have a huge amount of gaming books. I have even less after selling a big pile of D&D 3.x e on eBay a few years ago, altho...

This post is a sequel of sorts for my post, Five for Friday 13: Favorite Non-RPG Games . Chess and Stratego are my favorite two player...

Take one of the older editions of Dungeons & Dragons (or your favorite retroclone), strip away everything except the one most fundame...

Here are my five favorite retroclones (or simulacra , if you wish) of the world's most famous tabletop fantasy RPG game: BLUEHOLME P...

I was a playtester during the opening rounds of D&D Next playtesting. It turns out that the best outcome of my D&D Next playtestin...

There are a lot of caveats I could offer here at the start, but I will restrict myself to two: (1) I have not done any research on the A...

Here is a list of five of my early gaming influences. Back in the 1970s, gaming for me was all about the giant homemade dungeon . Here is ...

So, the first thing to note is that I have a name for my embryonic medieval urban fantasy campaign: Onyx (which likely reflects my recent...