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Guest blogging today on Black Gate.  All you ever wanted to know about 5th Edition!   http://www.blackgate.com/2014/08/13/art-of-the-genre-when-an-old-school-mind-learns-how-to-play-dd-5th-edition/

Today I'm very pleased to take on the art of Dragon Magazine #121!  Why, you might ask?  Well, because it has a fantastic Jim Holloway cover, his 6th to that point for Dragon, and it features samurai! This particular issue was released in May 1987, art directed by Roger Raupp, and edited by Roger E. Moore. The cover, as mentioned above, was done by artist Jim Holloway who in 1987 was really hitting the sweet spot of his art career.  His work to that point seemed to lead him to a certain mastery of craft that could not only be...

I will readily admit that I am a HUGE L5R RPG fan.  I've never played the card game, but some of the best campaigns I've ever been on were in the L5R setting, which is saying something considering how much I've played in my home brew D&D and Robotech games over the years.  Truly, the only outside game I've played that compares is Shadowrun, and even then I believe I've played more L5R on the whole. I can well remember going into a Waldenbooks in the early 2000s and finding a copy of the new D20 Oriental Adventures and being...

During my days as a 3rd Edition DM I had my share of sea adventures.  In the Nameless Realms there are two great oceans, the Halo and the Mardras, and both have had their fair share of adventures set both upon and under their waves.  To help meet those requirements, I often turned to the WotC product Stormwrack and it added a great deal of content to each adventure. Today I pulled down my volume and took a look at the artwork.  Produced in August 2005 with art direction by Karin Jaques, it certainly seems to be right in the...

I subscribed to the Pathfinder Adventure Paths for several years, and although I've managed to play two full 'Paths' I ended up running out of time once I moved to California.  Still, I have an entire shelf of Adventure Paths in my study, and I do get a good deal of enjoyment out of seeing them, especially when I take them down to look at the art.   The Bastards of Erebus was written by Sean K Reynolds, and that means it has to be good, and was art directed by Sarah Robinson.  It comes in just a bit under...