Where to order Labyrinth Lord

On the Goblinoid Games forums more and more reports of Labyrinth Lord sightings in game stores are rolling in. If you want your local store ...

Labyrinth Lord now in Italian!

Thanks to the hard work of Danilo Callegari, Antonio Eleuteri, Chiara Fattorelli, Tito Leati, Emiliano Marchetti, Andrea Marmugi and Roberto...

Have I created a monster?

With all of my "real life" work I hadn't had the chance to do any gaming of note for over a year. Some readers know I was over...

Labyrinth Lord now in distribution! (again)

The print run for the new Labyrinth Lord: Revised Edition reached the warehouse a few days ago, and will begin shipping out probably next w...

Greyhawk Fetish

James and Joseph posted recently about how Gary Gygax never published a full megadungeon, and have differing views of whether publishing a...

Updates

I'm still around, just busy with a "real life" writing project that will be underway until spring. So, if I haven't respon...

Skirmisher Publishing supporting Mutant Future!

Some readers may already know that Skirmisher Publishing released a supplement a while back for Mutant Future, called Creatures of the Waste...

Mutant Future podcast review

There is a great deal of retro-clone coverage in the latest podcast of All Games Considered . They have a nice review of Mutant Future in th...

Labyrinth Lord on the RPGnow Countdown!

Hey all, just a quick note to let you know that Labyrinth Lord got a mention in the RPGnow countdown since its been in the top ten sellers f...

An argument for neo-oldschool games.

Time to dust off the old cliche that a picture's worth a thousand words. Check out the picture of the battered (and battled!) Labyrinth ...

The real problem with the "what is the point" question.

Every so often someone asks what the point is of the "retro-clone" games, and occasionally it sparks another heated debate. This t...

Labyrinth Lord: Revised Edition now available!

Now available! The PDF is available here . The paperback is available here . The PDF will appear at YourGamesNow within a few days (I'm ...

Labyrinth Lord: Revised Edition coming in September!

Coming in September 2009! Labyrinth Lord: Revised Edition is a new printing of the classic Labyrinth Lord rules, which fixes known e...

A bad workman blames his tools

Print on demand technology is very important to small press publishing, and will only continue to be as time goes on. This is true whether i...

Dungeon Room Contest Voting

The submission period has closed, and you can now go to my forum to vote!

Mutant Future: First Runner Up

Mutant Future is the first runner up for best free RPG in 2008 in the Indie RPG awards! It is very humbling to get this recognition. I know...

Dungeon Room Contest! Submission ends Aug. 24th!

From my forums. I was perusing the used movies for sale at my local Blockbuster last week, and came across some copies of Gamerz . There wer...

The Planes in Labyrinth Lord

As I've been working on Advanced Edition Characters for Labyrinth Lord, I've been thinking a bit about the cosmology. I want to sti...

Simple Comparison

Sometimes I think the simplest comparison can say volumes more than a lengthy essay. There are certainly a number of differences between ...

Drizzt Do'Urden: When novels and games collide

In 1989 TSR released the Forgotten Realms supplement, Hall of Heroes. Back then I was a huge fan of the FR novels, so I was very excited to ...

Zee game is zee zame!

I just love this video , as some of you may know since I've linked to it before. This is probably one of the better examples of a blatan...

Mutant Future and the Indie RPG Awards

It's that time of year again for the Indie RPG awards! Last year, Labyrinth Lord placed as a runner up for Best Free Game of the Year 20...

Another one bites the dust

Not too long ago the OSR community was mourning the death of the term "old-school." Well gentle readers, on this fateful Friday i...

All Old-School Games Promote Tinkering

I came across this post by Matt Finch here , and wanted to offer a small comment on it. The specific quote is reproduced here: "The tac...

Placing in the Lulu sales contest for July

Matt Finch over at the Dragon's Foot boards alerted me to the fact that I'm currently 4th place in the Lulu July sales contest. It ...

Defending POD

Recently there have been a lot of negative comments about Lulu and print on demand fulfillment in general. I just wanted to make a very brie...

Additional Points from Mishler's Publishing Post

James Mishler wrote a fantastic break down of publishing costs and issues. I just want to add a couple small things or elaborate on a few i...

The OSR at Noble Knight Games

Some of you may or may not know that there is an OSR genre category at Noble Knight Games. More and more of us are trying to get old-school...

Comments on Mike Mearls' RPGnet Post

Some of you may have seen or will see a post by Mike Mearls in response to a thread started by James Raggi here . I'm reproducing parts...

Brave Halfling Publishing and Labyrinth Lord

As many people already know, John of Brave Halfling Publishing recently made an announcement that he would be reducing support of product l...

Labyrinth Lord and Google searches

If you go to Google Insight you can track the search trends of key words or phrases. A Labyrinth Lord search is here . The stats make a lot ...

Chocolate and Vanilla, great apart, better when swirled!

When I go to Dairy Queen and get an ice cream cone, I like to either get a vanilla/chocolate swirl or a vanilla cone dipped in chocolate. S...

Idol of the Orcs

Idol of the Orcs By James C. Boney A band of unusually organized orcs has taken to raiding farms and waylaying travelers near the loca...

Gaming and Ethnic Food

Gaming and food go so naturally together that we often take it for granted. I think the variation of the way this is expressed is mainly re...

Brave Halfling Publishing ushers in the new Labyrinth Lord module branding...

Just a quick note to report that as part of the revamp to the Labyrinth Lord presentation, I designed a new branding appearance in consultat...

Keepin on keepin on...

I just got finished editing and creating maps for a very nice introductory Labyrinth Lord module, written by James C. Boney, who many people...

Labyrinth Lord is not dead! (I promise!)

I was perusing the blogosphere when I came across a couple of troubling statements on this blog . Here are the relevant quotes: "Labyri...