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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...

Means that linear game is not a railroad.

I don't think having freedom to solve situations creatively makes a linear game not linear.

The idea of Lich is a combination of many different elements from many different folklores, especially the Koshei the Deathless, with...

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When I had a move a little over a year ago, I gave away a literal pick up truck bed full of RPGs (in legal file boxes) away because I...

So… it’s a framework that helps us determine success or failure of uncertain actions and allows us to do so with a degree of...

I agree with your first paragraph for some scenarios. But for something like escaping a plane, in a game like D&D where players rarely...

Surely you can chain multiple flips together over a sequence of play. OK the orc runs at you with a vicious serrated blade. [Player...

Why even play the game if the DM is just going to save you from everything bad you cause to yourself through poor decision making? If...