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I'm in need of a good pencil-wielder of the quality exhibited in the attached illustration, this for a dozen, detailed 1/4 page character illustrations. You will be working from a 2 1/2 page list of specific content regarding the characters. A short NDA will be required If you are an...

LINK: Looks like a roller coaster ride!

I posted a short article on creating memorable story arcs in the Original Greyhawk and Kalibruhn campaigns and with my age-old villain, the evil wizard Zayene, as the focus. Created in 1973 he still "lives" today and even has an unpublished short story written on him, The Jungle Temple. I am...

Just a few side quests over the past few months that I've been involved in; the links should be of specific interest to D&D Greyhawk fans as well as general interest to RPG fans of all stripes, especially D&D fans. -- RJK Castle Greyhawk, the lost dungeon that kicked off Dungeons & Dragons...

As the neutral DM I was positioned to see how the opposition to Bob Burman had manifested, especially among two primary players in my campaigns and games, James Goodfellow and Eric Shook. Where does this animus derive from? It can be narrowed down as a reaction to Bob’s philosophy (or lack...

Every game club or group has one. A person who stands out from the rest mostly due to some recurring oddity, a facet of their unchanging personality if you will, and their sublime belief in their own invincibility in life as well as at the game table. Add to this a penchant for vocalizing the...

GECON IX, Baby! It was happening. TSR was on a roll. The last supplement for OD&D had just been released, Empire of the Petal Throne was a reality, and Fritz Leiber’s board game, Lankhmar (based off his original cork board-game that he and Harry O. Fischer had designed and played far back in...

Don Kaye was the co-Founder of TSR with his best friend, Gary Gygax. Learn from another of Don's friends, Rob Kuntz, about who Don was and what he accomplished before his untimely death in 1975 just as the company he helped found was rocketing skyward. To preview the product description and...

If you are interested in the roots of gaming in Lake Geneva (1968-1975) and particularly about filling in the lack of information that exists about Don Kaye, Gary Gygax's best friend and co-founder of TSR, this booklet and its special memorial color prints will satisfy. A long over due send up...

(Very early 1973, 1st level of my Castle El Raja Key) -- In November of 1972 four stalwarts of the LGTSA (Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association; of which I was then its current president)--namely Gary Gygax, myself, Ernie Gygax and my brother Terry Kuntz--experienced our first, and also...

What follows are some dear and treasured memories—snippets, funny lines, and outbursts recalled from play. Many eluded both myself and Gary over the years. But these few should serve to indicate how the majority of us gamed in those days, and especially how we gamed while the original D&D game...

Roughly two years before Luke Gygax was born I walked through the front door of the Gygax residence at 330 Center Street in Lake Geneva. This was at the invite of Gary through his gamer friend and a very recent acquaintance of mine, Larry Zirk. Very few people from that time know of Larry Zirk...