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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...

My point was you can’t prepare for the unknown, and my experience suggests that for a lot of DMs there will be unknowns. If only...

Sort of? Every Cursed Scroll has a dungeon, as I recall, but most of them are focused on a big overland map, other than the one issue...

There's still going to be things you may do when the roll made them seem convincing in a way that would make you second-guess yourself...

Shadowdark is lethal, particularly at low levels, but I don't think it's particularly dark in theme. Though after one hour of real time...

Yeah, well interacting with the public over social media is probably like pregnancy... you forgot how much pain you were in before when...

Ah, a Harriett Porber reference! I should have known (Don’t look that up if you’re at work btw)

What is the definition of avatar play? Because to me it implies basically playing yourself, which of course need not to be happening...

But you have, so you know where to get lots of adventures already. And I think more people are getting third party products than we...

That's not an argument. Is has been a staple for Wizard optimizers for over a decade. It's in practically every guide. And Druids can do...