Yes! This is a feature I wanted to bring back for 2019 to give a shout out to some lesser know, lesser read blogs or at least ones people may not talk about much.
Today I want to feature a blog that has been around forever, out there doing his own thing.
Jason Vey runs the Wasted Lands blog
Now I have known Jason for years. We worked at Eden together, worked on the Buffy RPG at the same time. He playtested my Ghosts of Albion for Eden I playtested his All Flesh Must Be Eaten books for Eden. I playtested his Spellcraft & Swordplay retro-game and many other games.
So we have been working together for nearly 20 years really.
Among other things Jason also is the author/designer of the Amazing Adventures game from Troll Lords and did a lot of work on various Castles & Crusades projects. So he has a solid game design reputation and CV.
The Wasted Lands is his deep dive, scholarly work into older editions of D&D, in particular, OD&D and AD&D first edition.
He covers a lot of OD&D topics. In fact I bought my white box OD&D 5th printing off of him because he had an extra.
He covers AD&D First Edition, he is now up to Part 45 of his read through of the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide.
And more recently he did a long series of posts on Psionics in the OD&D and AD&D games.
And today, much closer to our shared roots, he posted stats for the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for OD&D.
Jason is also something a legitimate Robert E. Howard and Conan scholar.
So do yourself a favor and check out his blog. Start with what I have linked above and don't ignore his Star Wars posts.
Thanks for this - added his blog!
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