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We’re doing another OSRCon meetup in two weeks. If you’d like to come, follow the G+ link through the homepage at http://www.osrcon.ca , read today’s post and add your name in the comments section to be added to the list … Continue reading →

OSRCon is happening again on 27 August. More details available at http://www.osrcon.ca The conversation is on the G+, so go to the site and follow to OSRCon Toronto.

OSRCon is happening again on 28 August this month. More details available at http://www.osrcon.ca

The first edition of Arduin Grimoire had cover art by Erol Otus. The second edition had art by Greg Espinoza. He had recently won the Bally pinball art contest in Starlog magazine (Feb. 1980, issue #31). He did two pictures … Continue reading →

I just found out that OSRCon happened this year. So, I’m learning this two weeks after the fact. OK, that’s a shame. I would have liked to have gone. Here’s hoping there’s an OSRCon 6. Here’s to the people that … Continue reading →

Forget the dice. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/sports/for-longsword-a-comeback-ages-in-the-making.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0  

I guess we’re going to have to wait a little longer for a movie on the origins of D&D. Looks like the movie started with good intentions is bogged down with personality conflicts. $250,000, two years, no movie, and one … Continue reading →

I went to OSRCon IV on the weekend and it was great fun. I had no more expectation that I’d ever go to OSRCon again than I would type on this blog. After three times I was exhausted. I asked … Continue reading →

One day Wally Hnatiw came out of the University Theater on Bloor and saw a store he’d never seen before. On the second floor across the street was a store called Mr. Gameways’ Ark. This was the 70s and he’d … Continue reading →

I just had coffee with Wally Hnatiw (of Dungeon Parties Inc., Games By The Water, The Full Spectrum Game Club, and Pandemonium) and got a great load of stories about the game scene in the early 80s. I’m going to … Continue reading →