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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

Image courtesy of Pixabay. For years, my game room sat as a quiet monument to a dream: a dedicated space where I could play Dungeons &...

TSR Inc. published Dragon #101 in September 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features the third...

The story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 is a tragedy of American history: a cautionary tale of class bias, social anxiety, and...

Yeah. That was always my perception of how 4e was presented, like the fiction was just flavor for the far more important rules set. I...

I mean Shadowdark solves all of this neatly and simply, how can it NOT be the objectively better way? ;)

The idea that what we're calling the fiction is 'just flavour' is probably a core problem in how different people see what playing an...

I just can't believe she was responsible for the disappointing plot of the final season.

Oh my god, all she's going to write about is the 1980s?! I am outraged!

I enjoy survival/building based video games, 4x video games like Stellaris, some board games (usually ones with higher complexity and/or...

Okay. That’s just excellence.

AD&D approach. 3E,4E,5E tried to force it unto a spreadsheet.

Similarly, Worcestershire (pronounced “Wooster”) sauce is a condiment. You add a few drops to something you’re seasoning, like the top...

You can find them, but they tend to be overly-focused on realtime space combat around the other things that made Star Control 2 (and the...