The memorial service for Gary Gygax was today, an event I wish I could have attended. He passed away earlier this week and I have found myself more saddened by it than I would have expected. During the past few days there have been many tributes and expressions of what Gary meant to his fans, […]

A long time ago I wrote the Conan Role-Playing Game. It was a pretty lightweight system — I was trying to create something that was fast to play and captured some of the heroic story-telling of Robert E. Howard, instead of just being hack-and-slash. Mostly I was trying to have fun getting all the details […]