Vintage RPG
An exploration of tabletop RPGs and their many intersections with popular culture.
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Why a newsletter? Times change! After seven years of (essentially) daily posting on Instagram and finding a remarkable and warm audience there, Instagram itself seems to simply…not work as well as it once had. This project was always an odd fit there, admittedly – pictures of old books accompanied by long captions – but it […]
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When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, they created the first roleplaying game of all time. Little did they know that thei...
Buy Experience Points - The Lost Chapters!
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Experience Points has been nominated for an Ennie for Best RPG Related Product! "The working title for my book was Experience Points...but in the end, I wound up calling it Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, a title I think speaks more broadly to the act of playing RPGs, rather than their mechanics. It’s not
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