Introduction: Scope and Purpose
Hello! Welcome to The Fantastic is Fact. The purpose of this blog is to share my musings about and experiences engaging with tabletop role-playing games — specifically those of the "old-school" variety. There's no telling precisely what those games will be, other than what strikes my fancy or seizes my imagination enough to put a hand to keyboard or even (God forbid!) get a game going. As of today, I can at least say that those games include the original version of Dungeons & Dragons , Tunnels & Trolls , Mydwandr , and Castles & Crusades . I hope that my posts can provide some exciting new insights into those games as well as into the hobby in general. The title of this blog is taken straight from the "Forward" to the original, 1974 version of Dungeons & Dragons . It's with the "Afterword," however, that I'd like to open this blog: These final, parting words that Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson leave players with have inspired m...