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Managing a table of ten players is less like storytelling and more like air traffic control. In the heat of my weekly library sessions...

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

TSR Inc. published Dragon #102 in October 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features gully dwarves...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. In the world of public library gaming, overbooking is more than a strategy; it is a survival mechanism...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Running any free event at a public library is an act of local heroism; running a weekly Dungeons & Dragons...

Despite hours spent scrolling through digital tools and PDFs, the nuances of the new system felt slippery, like trying to catch smoke...

It was the claim that the only backwards compatibility mentioned was for adventures.

"...and so the bear says, 'You didn't really come here to hunt, did you?'"

So....it's like 1990 or '91, about 11:30 at night, and I'm sitting on the floor of Grand Central Station waiting for my train, reading a...

I mean...the DL modules have wen sitting right there waiting for a refresh for a decade.

The thing I hate about 5e is where the GM has to physically punch you every session.

Where’s the lie? 5.0 material that hasn’t been updated for 5.5 can absolutely be used in a 5.5 game. I’ve been doing it, and it has...

Shadowdark really isn't Dark Fantasy at all. The only edge is in the art, and even then it's a minority of pieces.

I wonder if this book will have rules that actually make spellcasters levitate when they cast spells ;)

This is my thought. Arcane and Mystic are synonyms. Whilst some of the subclasses were clearly needed, such as the specialist wizards...