Role Playing
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 48: The Prize of Erackinor
I wasn’t completely sure I should cover this brief section of an article in this series, but decided that in a half-hearted gesture towards thoroughness we should at least mention the “Prize of Erackinor.”…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 45: Pox of the Planes
Already we’re back at Dragon Magazine‘s annual issue (missing half a year of releases due to bankruptcy will do that), with another contribution by Ed Bonny, one of the more obscure Planescape authors but…
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A Walk Through the Planes – An Interview with Monte Cook, Ray Vallese, and Colin McComb
A few weeks back, I was surprised to learn that a handful of Planescape’s original designers had stumbled into this site and taken a look at some of our coverage. Needless to say, I…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 8: The Plane Truth
It feels fitting that as we finally come to the first appearance of Planescape itself, I find myself invoking one of the setting’s three, somewhat nonsensical yet still-guiding principles: the unity of rings. The…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 7: MC 8 Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix
With the release of AD&D‘s second edition, TSR made more than a handful of sweeping changes to the game. Rules updates were one of the more obvious of these, but just as immediately noticeable…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Side Story: An Interview with Jamie LaFountain about the Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix
While researching my next essay in this super-niche series, which focuses on Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix (also known as MC8), I found myself hitting a wall as far as learning where its more…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Disco Elysium | Turn Down *the Cuno*
On the heels of our look at Baldur’s Gate 3 last week, Sean and I were still in a role-playing dice-rolling mood and decided to finally check out inept cop simulator Disco Elysium. Join…
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