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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...

Hit me with it.

Daggerheart Witherwild Fought godling; lost; finding allies.

[snip] My campaigns seldom have a fixed end in sight at outset. The few that have had are the exceptions. My Elestrial Concordat...

I think extremely rare is a stretch. The many campaign books have been the backbone of 5th edition (and Pathfinder) and there are a lot...

My instinct is the same as yours. You mentioned not downplaying the monster, which I think is important. Players sense when DMs are...

I tend to look at it a bit differently. An Orc with a great axe is 1/2 CR, but can down a party member with a single shot. A Carrion...

CR's not a limiter. It can be any CR so long as the movement is such that they can pick up their one shotted dying party member and run...

A monster they can't avoid? Probably CR 2. A monster that has been telegraphed and they have a chance to avoid or parley with? No limit...

Avalon Rising sounds very Blame! and I might have to look into it.