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Ian Livingstone takes a moment to compare sales with popularity on the RPG scene. Recent sales data shows the most well selling games...

The more Dungeons & Dragons and tabletop role-playing agmes becomes popular, the more the market has started to cater to us. There are...

In a shorter editorial this month Ian Livingstone shares his joy at the growth of Games Day. He claims it is the largest of its kind in...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. The apocalypse, as used in fiction, generally means the destruction of civilization, leading to a drastic...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. The Universal Trinity of Vehicle Design When building a world—or in this case, a science-fiction setting...

TSR Inc. published Dragon #100 in August 1985. It is 116 pages long and has a cover price of $3.95. This milestone issue features more...

Picture courtesy of OathOn - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, File:Amish style families at the Rochester Medieval Festival and Son et...

Thanks to improvements in manufacturing, small publishers can now produce miniatures at scale. Here's a list for gamers who need...

I don't even need to read the thread. I hates it my precious. :p

Thanks all! Yep, we've got several of those in progress. For example, our Talking Heads is sort of an Vine/plant creature that absorbs...

I think the problem here is "believability" is a moving target, not only on the viewer, but on genre and setting. Things that might be...

By necessity, PCs in games like D&D are going to be fairly unrealistic. I mean, you could spend more time on developing character...

I'm more interested in coherence than actual believability. A lot of fiction is about characters who aren't so much lifelike but have...

Grateful to see that the witch is dead, Whisper calms himself and controls his breathing. Realizing that he is not physically hurt, he...

Your description of the scene and quote is a little bit off. For anybody who hasn’t seen this film, Tuco (“The Ugly” per the movie’s...