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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...

I know that D&D has been getting all sorts of wide spread acceptance but, this was a new experience for me. I teach online English...

Exactly it’s more deigned for buildings in a heist campaign rather than a classic dungeon. Museum, Warehouse, Nobles Manor, Livery...

There's a lot of alien, existential dread in Gibson's writings. Whether it's the Tessier-Ashpools, Josef Virek, Wintermute, or the Loa...

If lack of information leads to players not enjoying the progress of play, I would rather just tell them. Mysteries and puzzles can be...

Apropos of nothing, it would be very easy to make Neuromancer cosmic horror, if one were so inclined. As Ashpool tells Molly in part 4...

I love this book, and I'm not currently running a game in The Forgotten Realms. The adventures are easy enough to transplant, and the...

It's only closer to stasis because you perceive it as cosmic law and not cosmic anecdotes

Or, for those of us that grew up with 1e, mispronouncing all those Gygaxian words.

You can tell the kids that learnt English playing DnD when they start talking about the encumbrance of their backpack. ;)

Ugh. I remember having an argument with a classmate that loved superheroes but considering D&D satanic how the two genres were so very...

I know that D&D has been getting all sorts of wide spread acceptance but, this was a new experience for me. I teach online English...

This was my experience too, as a gamer through the 80s. Even people who were not particularly devout were concerned that something...

Yes, I agree. His and Greenwood's articles are consistently the highest quality writing in the magazine.