Category Archives: TSR

Lankmar: City of (incomplete) Adventure

The second of my reviews on ‘games based on authors associated with the magazine Weird Tales’ will, I promise, be a lot shorter than the previous instalment. Partly for economy, partly for user-friendliness (screeds hardly make for easy reading on iPads and their ilk), but mainly because Lankmar, based on Fritz Leiber’s  Fafhrd and the [...]

By Crom! It’s Conan the Roleplayian…

Conan Role-Playing Game by David pre-‘Zeb’ Cook TSR (1985) I suppose it’s no mystery why Tolkien’s cosy take on Epic Fantasy became the predominate model  for so much of mainstream fantasy RPGing, whereas Robert E. Howard’s  sword & sorcery mix of heroic horror and pre-historic  brutality was deeded unacceptable as the face of role-playing orthodoxy [...]

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