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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...

Everybody who is posting on forums attributing the crowdfunding success to the market appreciating a cozy game. Well, yes. Also, a...

Yeah, “fight” is a bit of a lofty way to describe what they did, for sure! But I assume that’s what @Voadam was referring to. It does...

I'm waiting for the inevitable punkpunk RPG genre. ;) That said, I've always believed that Dark Sun (and most post-Apocalyptic...

Champions could still be Dark Sun based on the whole Gladiator arena combat of it all... Still, it seems a stretch. They could easily...

A man at a convention once griped to Sergio Aragones that he charged $50 for an illustration it took him 5 minutes to do. Sergio...

-- OK, be wrong then.

If it helps, a lot of people ignore the heavy metal art and just use it to run any old school-style adventure they want, many of which...

and yet they arrived at using 2d6 at over a year of trying different things, custom dice, not d6s, … so it is not a rip off, it just...

I worked in an airport parking structure through high school and college, and got pretty good at the old coathanger game. Turned out it...