Games don’t exist in a vacuum, and this one draws on varied inspirations. Michael’s own Warrior, Rogue & Mage, with its ...

Welcome back to my 40 Years a Gamer retrospective. In the last post, I looked at the first game I played. But today, I want to talk about the early years of playing ...

A few days ago, I wrote a post sharing the Questing Beast Survey on RPG Playstyles. While I shared it as an interesting attempt to gather data about the TTRPG community, the survey ...

Just when I thought I had uncovered all the hidden gems from my recent deep dive into 70s sword-and-sorcery comics, I stumbled across another one that I knew absolutely nothing about: Dagar the ...

Welcome back to my 40-year retrospective as a gamer. If the early years were defined by beautiful chaos, 1993 was the pivot. At that time, my gaming schedule was highly irregular. We’d get together ...

Welcome to Day 15 of #RPGaDay2026. As I explained in my Day 0 post, I’ll be creating NPCs based on the day’s prompts and the week and day modifiers presented in the infographic below. Check out that ...

Quick note: This is something I do every Saturday on my Facebook Page, Sunglar’s Musings. Since I know not everyone is on Facebook and I wanted to close out the week here on the blog, I’m sharing my ...

I meant to write this post yesterday, but then real life got in my way. A combination of illness, going to the physician to make sure everything was all right, and the fact that it was my 10th wedding ...

In my early years as a gamer, four artists truly defined my conception of D&D and tabletop fantasy art: Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Clyde Caldwell, and Keith Parkinson. I first recall them being ...

Hello readers! I’m back with another interview with a Puerto Rican creative and gamer. I recently posted on social media asking for artists and creatives to interview, and a friend of a friend ...

Recently I decided to totally relaunch the Stargazer Games website. For many years I haven’t really had the time to give it a proper overhaul and it using WordPress was a bit of an overkill. The new ...

A few days ago, I wrote a post sharing the Questing Beast Survey on RPG Playstyles. While I shared it as an interesting attempt to gather data about the TTRPG community, the survey has sparked a lot ...