The first adventure for a generation of roleplayers was Bargle’s underground lair. Featured in the 1983 red box set, this D&D solo adventure did a fantastic job of teaching rules, introducing bizarre monsters (the dreaded rust monster!), and even giving characters a compelling emotional reason to delve into a dangerous dungeon — the murder of […]
Month: March 2020
Author’s Note: I wrote this article four years ago… and wow, has time changed! When it was written, there was no such thing as AI-generated images, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, etc. (nor any of the controversies that followed in their wake). Still, I use some of these older techniques from time to time, just to give […]
Pulp RPGs are cursed! I’m not an RPG historian, but I’m fairly positive that is a 100% true statement, at least for me. Every pulp RPG I excitedly purchased had an ill-fated ending. I was crushed when I realize the TSR Indiana Jones game only let you pick between seven characters to play. You better […]
