A 2nd Edition Umpleby. Among the curious, little-used, and often-derided B-list of the AD&D Fiend Folio, there is a monster called t...

Shark Week on RRR! Who needs a Fiend Folio or Monster Manual II when you have these man-ennobling, straight-from-Syfy, straight-to-DVD chi...

in its smug, bard-lovin', Next Generation, Wheel of Time-buyin', Renfairin' face? Thanks to Internet Archive and its cache...

I thought I'd pay homage to a whole month of Monster Mondays in my own way... These guys are known to me via the amazing public domain r...

In a place where edition wars against edition one thing can unite us: the certain knowledge that this is going to suck. Bad...

Isle Of The who? A 10th grade creation ... 11th grade and I was ready to go. No more D&D in the science wing lounge under the prying,...

I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, the New York comedy writer's shorthand for "old money." It was a nice place to raise a ki...

Now that I've made you look ... See, since back when I read Lawrence Schick's review in the April 1982 issue of Dragon (p. 76), w...

My vote for the worst monster in all of AD&D goes to the one they saved for next-to-last in Monster Manual II. Somehow it survived i...

Close behind the temptation to laugh at bad monsters ( ha , ha and ha ) is the temptation to improve them. It's the same urge that led N...

The most spectacular failed monsters are those that bring together elements never yet joined before - the head of a rabbit! the body of a l...

Allow me to resurrect this article on creativity that came to my attention via Trollsmyth several months ago. I'm passingly familiar ...