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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...

Well, I sure hope it is bigger than FotA. That book's content is great but it was a real missed opportunity. There was so much more they...

I would bet against that, actually: it may cover similar areas, but it is probably formatted differently, similar to Forge of the Artificer.

Green Lantern's most celebrated run was the Hard Traveling Heroes era where Hal and Green Arrow hitchhiked across the USA in the 1970s...

That is kind of the long way around, isn't it? "We recommend starting at 3rd level for seasoned players" is not really the same thing as...

We even transitioned our ongoing campaign to it. It was not too big of a change, and if you have martial character it just feels a bit...

I don't see how any of that is supposed to change my point here.

To be clear, I was doing full inhabitation play 30 years ago; this isn't a case of people "not getting" what you're talking about. You...

I also see it as just one way among others to play. It's just the one way among others that I very much prefer.

As with many things, I don't assume anyone on either end of the table gets it right all the time.