I got to run my " The Last Jedi " replacement Star Wars Saga adventure called NO LAST JEDI at GaryCon last week. I've fi...

RETRO GAMING! I learned a short time ago that Lego actually released an rpg-themed boardgame back in 2011 called Lego Heroica, but it was...

  Hi there! I know its been a while. Long story short I've moved the blog over to my own VC domain so I can store and po...

In honor of Valentines Day I'd like to talk about a subject most near and dear to my heart, my unrequited love for Ravenloft and all thi...

Welcome one and all to the Yawning Portal! Grab your iron rations, silver mirrors, and tinderboxes because it’s time to descend into the dre...

As promised, here's another quick-n-dirty tutorial for the busy painter. When you've got a horde of monsters/soldiers/whatever you j...

Sometimes you've just got to get through a backlog of minis. Get them painted, get them done. Well, I finally opened up my Games Work...

Today on the Vorpal Chainsword Podcast , we speak with the Gamer Queen of the Unseelie Court: JEN PAGE! Jen Page is a Dun...

So maybe you're at GenCon right now, knee-deep in orcs, reaving your way through a bloody slaughter of Red Bull-fueled carnage and glory...

Interested in learning how to host a small convention that features one of the greatest AD&D megadungeons of all time, and one that yo...

In a new episode of the Vorpal Chainsword Podcast I spoke with the Master Cartographer of old-school gaming and the non-Gygaxian half of ...

So last Saturday I wrote up and ran my first 5th edition D&D game, set in a new Sword and Sorcery world. I mentioned in that post that ...

When it comes to D&D, I haven't run anything other than an over-the-top one-shot games in a long time. Its just so easy to keep on ...

So I've decided to go with the multiple-versions-of-Marty route for my Back to the Future RPG game. The reason being that I think it...

So its 2015, year that the Cubs win the World Series and Griff runs his PitBull powered hoverboard into the Hill Valley Clock Tower. That...

The Vorpal Chainsword will soon be launching a new gaming-related Podcast, which we are currently in the process of generating and editing c...

Ever since the turn of the century in The Year of Our Lord Two-Thousand, Dungeons and Dragons (starting with 3rd Edition) has dropped the Cl...

As longtime readers of the Chainsword will know, so far I've been really liking the new 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons rules from the ...

Normally I avoid other people like the plague. Other people have things you don't want: Responsibilities, questions, germs, morals, opin...

Had movie night last night and watched the D&D-is-Satanic 1980's-Parody movie " Dark Dungeons " with a couple of buds. Its...