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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...

Thanks so much!!

I do not own everything, but what I own- I like.

So the charity I work for is closing down this year. I'll be losing my job ("made redundant" as they say around here) at the end of the...

The same players keep coming, week after week. We often play the same system. The majority of my campaigns that never finish end due...

I've presented my problem with that before; I don't see any point in repeating it again. And if I'm going to bother to have the rolls...

And we come again to the continually derived conclusion of "different people play different and like very different things, even when...

Sure, I'd agree with that. And there's nuance here too; I've definitely known players who will roleplay a hearty personality during the...

That one might be a story worth telling (in a comic). Both characters have a little Sherlock in their DNA.

I remember during the 3.5/OGL days, there was a sourcebook from Mystic Eye Games called "Tarot Magic," which introduced a new class, the...