Yes, it's widely known that Gary Gygax explicitly said that the city of Greyhawk in his original campaign was located on an altered map ...

As a teen I read Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions but never got around to its slightly later-written companion volume, The ...

Here is a representative treasure description written by Gary Gygax. It's from Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. The jade coffer is wo...

Inspired by Appendix N fever, I recently picked up and read Sterling Lanier's Hiero's Journey (1973), which I'd never read befor...

As Joe Bloch has observed , the Greyhawk map has a lot of interesting coastline, unlike boring maps like Middle Earth. This is, perhaps, jus...

The clearest sign that Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk was based on an earlier campaign that used a map of North America is the Lake Su...

Having availed myself of the free download of Gygax and Mentzer's Temple of Elemental Evil  last week, I was immediately stopped dead i...

Brendan's comment on my previous post had me going back to the first AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide trying to pinpoint exactly ho...

The first AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide, as grognards well know, contains the touchstone Appendix N, in Frazetta cover, 1964 whic...

So yeah, the wife and I just fell over laughing the other night trying to read aloud  Zak's Helm-of-Opposite-Alignment smashup of that ...

Gary Gygax Hello, visitor! If you're interested in the legacy of Gary Gygax, the game he helped create, and what do-it-yourself hobby...

For my 100th post please allow me to cross the streams of my professional and hobby lives. Gygax's view of values and morality, Player...