 Rowland had an interest in writing magazine articles — he had already written two articles about scientific photography for "Amateur Photographer".After playing "AD&D" for a couple of years, he started to submit articles about role-playing games to hobby magazines, beginning with a variant character class for "AD&D", the Detective, that appeared in the April-May 1981 edition (Issue #24) of "White Dwarf".He became a frequent contributor to "White Dwarf", "Dungeon", "Challenge", "Different Worlds", "The Space Gamer", and "Dragon", starting with articles about "AD&D", but quickly branching into "Traveller", "Call of Cthulhu", and "Judge Dredd".