Leicester's Ramble

Two quick pictures. Shelfie with most of my game and game-adjacent books: And the proportion of those that were published under the OGL: Jus...

I first read Dune the summer of 7 th grade, I believe. Checked out the big 1 st edition hardback from the library. I'm certain that pa...

A couple months back,  Colin Green  mentioned picking up some new reading material of history for adding flavor and verisimilitude to one of...

I've often groused about how history seems to be taught so poorly - at least my exposure to it in middle and high school. I didn't h...

I originally found Uri Kurlianchik through his DND Kids blog, where I enjoyed his observations and tales of running games/herding adolesce...

Hi  +j garrison ! Thank you for hosting this month's RPG Blog Carnival, " Journals, Grimoires and Spell-Books ." It's...

....wherein we find more books to seek, stumble upon, or suppress.... Source Funerary of Ildar:  A hide-bound book of resurrection o...

A recent study by a professor at Ithaca College found that very few libraries include RPG books and resources with in their collections. B...

The Orange - Greatly feared and suppressed, huge bounties for its recovery (and preferably, destruction) have been posted by kings and conq...

'Twas my birthday last week. Came home to a few Amazon boxes from the wife.  Seems that she wandered back into the dark recesses of my...

Purchased the S&W Complete Rulebook during Frog God's recent one-day sale. In addition to being a most excellent rules-set, it al...

L is for Lost Tomes (previously here , and here ) 5 more books quickly ginned up to keep the Alphabet Dungeon stocked: source Lebe...

When wandering through the local Half Price books a few months back (ostensibly to just buy Divergent for the daughter), I stumbled on comp...

More Lost and Found Books previously Twelve more (hopefully) interesting documents to find in a library or trove.... 1. Urnell's S...

My friend Kij is a Real Writer (vs. me, who is a geologist who leaves his keyboard unaccompanied in a roomful of macaques). So reposting ...

I recently found the Thomas Covenant trilogy at Goodwill, and since I had never read the books, picked them up. The trilogy is regarded a...

Ordered a used copy from Amazon, $4.50, shipped. Opened it to see if it had any stories (besides those on the pages). It's aut...

...to be injected into a library, treasure, or quest.  These may be very valuable to someone - either to be shared... or suppressed. Sour...

Making up some Appendix N negligence for about $6.