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Blue Flame, Tiny Stars: A Memoir

Stephen Wendell • September 2, 2022

Last year, I recorded a series of anecdotes on DONJON LANDS about my early experiences learning to play Dungeons & […]

In 2016, I published my second book. The first in a series, its title is The First Story of Littlelot.

If ever Dan challenges you to a game of Chainmail Jousting, don’t do it. Just don’t do it! He has

This month makes 40 years I’ve been playing D&D. Last year I wrote down all the stories from my earliest experiences

I hesitate to put into words what I mean by “the Holmes spirit.” Certain qualities of the brief rules booklet

Stephen Wendell • February 15, 2022

In “Holmes on a Coin’s Weight,” we take the Editor’s proposed weight of a standard coin—twice that of a quarter—and

Stephen Wendell • February 8, 2022

…for 300 gold pieces are assumed to weigh about 30 pounds (Holmes, 9). Melqart raised the torch over his head.

Stephen Wendell • January 28, 2022

Once the party is engaged in melee, arrows cannot be fired into the fight because of the probability of hitting

Stephen Wendell • January 28, 2022

Here I excerpt a chapter of Littlelot and the Rescue of Gwenevere, because everyone likes a joust. In the story,

polyhedron noun: a solid formed by plane faces —Webster’s According to Webster’s, the plural of polyhedron is polyhedrons or polyhedra.

“Jousting in Chainmail is like playing rock-paper-scissors.” The analogy is as oft cited as apt. In Chainmail (3rd ed., Tactical