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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...

not sure anyone is getting worked up over it. If this ends up being 160 pages and levels 1-12 then it is a big adventure, if it is 80...

Is 16 hours on levels 1-2 "quickly"? At some tables, that would be slow. In recent years, the official WotC campaigns generally get the...

Elves.

Call me skeptical, but elves are pretty ubiquitous in nearly all fantasy games, but not all fantasy games have cosmic horror. Even those...

I don't need opinionated games, though that could be fun. But I prefer if a game has a play style it wants to provide and then actually...

It's always hard to gauge what people mean on things like this if you don't know how frequent their sessions are, and how long they are.

I'm breaking it down thusly: Ravenloft = Setting book Arcana Unleashed = Rules expansion Deadfall = Adventure My point is that the...

As part of today's reveal of Ravenloft: The Horrors Within, Wizards of the Coast also released several pieces of early preview artwork...

I'm sure I could play at your table, I'm ultimately pretty flexible. I just probably wouldn't play a character focused on social checks...