Grumpy Wizard » 5E
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Essays on Sword & Sorcery Fiction, Classic Adventure Gaming, and Heavy Metal Music
Grumpy Wizard » 5E
4M ago
I participate in some of the discussions about "the world's greatest fantasy role playing game" on the local Facebook D&D group. I occasionally bring up some element of the Old School Renaissance play style. Almost without fail there will be a dismissive comment from another gamer who started playing D&D around the time I did ..read more
Grumpy Wizard » 5E
4M ago
What is the point in time and design ethos when "new" D&D becomes fundamentally different from "old" D&D ..read more
Grumpy Wizard » 5E
4M ago
When the OSR was new, nobody thought anyone born after Gary Gygax was kicked out of TSR would be interested in classic games. That might be changing ..read more
Grumpy Wizard » 5E
4M ago
I don't want to write about this. I'm tired of reading about it. I'm tired of thinking of about it. I have nothing to say about the legal issues involved. I do have some things to say to the hobby gamers ..read more
Grumpy Wizard » 5E
4M ago
There's is a lot of heated talk about the brand and the game of Dungeons & Dragons. I have thoughts. These thoughts are about the response I am seeing more than what WotC is doing ..read more
Grumpy Wizard » 5E
4M ago
A brand is not what the company that makes it says it is. It is what their customers feel it is. How am I feeling about the D&D brand ..read more
Grumpy Wizard » 5E
4M ago
Wizards of Coast announced the company would be making changes to orcs, drow and Vistani in future printings of their works. The decision for the Vistani makes sense as they are an analogue for the Romani people and to continue to utilize a bigoted stereotype of a real world people is an ugly blight on ..read more