Yes, it's pretty inevitable, isn't it. The main reason none of this has appeared before is simply that in 1995 I went through a serious bit of burnout, and that's why I'm only actually getting round to scanning (where feasible) and uploading all this stuff in 2003 (in what turned out to be brief window before burning out completely again).
Essays
- Role-playing games and me — the when and what overview
- Memorable games — what actually makes a game memorable? And is it for the right reasons?
- Mini-essays on various RPG themes
Crunchy bits
- Systems from classic dungeon delving days — Martyn Wheeler's dungeon (1978-9)
- Free form magic from Pete Windsor's Ranlyr campaign (1979-80)
- System variants for the Homefall campaign (1979) [Maps are not accessible, the rest of the page should be.]
- Ringing Steel — combat system from Pete's Allayne Campaign (c1981) [Not yet accessible, as it has many charts and diagrams.]
Campaigns
- 1977 New Earth (run by Andy Gilham) [Maps are not accessible, the rest of the page should be.]
- 1979-80 Ranlyr (run by Pete Windsor)
- c1981 Notes for a world I never ran
Rogues' Gallery
- Early nostalgia — my first character, the first to go up levels, the highest I've ever played, that sort of thing.
- The Champions — Superheroes from the mid 1980s.
Glorantha
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- Glorantha — my encounters — and on again, off again, relationship — with Greg Stafford's intensely infuriating, and engaging world.
- The Orlanthi Sun God — One of the more infuriating bits; my response.
- Another view — One project that I considered was to use the Forgotten Realms maps for an alternative far future Glorantha, where Orlanth and the Red Moon fought to a standstill, and Jar-Eel ended up in a role akin to the Lady, out of Glen Cook's Black Company books. The campaign would be set long ages after the fall of the Red Dominion. The AD&D2 Complete Priests' Handbook is assumed. The inspiration was sparked when a player chose a priest of Strength with the Barbarian kit, and it looked a lot like a Storm Bull cultist…
- Character Sheets for HeroQuest — for Word2000 and OpenOffice.org v1.1 and for A4 and Letter paper, all in one 55k zip archive.