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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...

Oh god, now I want to create a magocracy domain menaced by a snake-themed lich Dark Lord who is doomed to get defeated by students at a...

She is likely one of the inspirations behind them, along with other literary mystery-solving children. As well it should be! Creating...

The surprise for me is the return of lupines as PC specie. We know the therian "furry" playable species are wellcome in 5e. The dark...

And obviously other stuff, basically stealing the Bard's jack of all trades schtick and decoupling it from spellcasting. A trickster...

Dragonlance, yes, the other two, no. Not every release is a big adventure book, that was true then just as much as it is now... 2014...

DO you think people are allowed to ask a question though? Maybe posed as reflection, or suggesting a point of view, or reminding the...

I presume you do know that that's not at all what he said.

So aside from external circumstances that people can't control (like life), I genuinely believe this is a major killer of campaigns. A...

The number one thing is fairly simple apathy: people don't care. They are not willing to make the time, as they just don't care. "eh...