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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...

D20 system with… everything. D&D 5E with… everything!

There are games where the stakes involved in a roll require the player to act in accordance, and rationalize, a decision that the player...

Because there are some (many) games that you don't want to play in an immersive fashion. To me, those kinds of complaints feel somewhat...

Ah, I wanted to eliminate me as the arbiter of what is good. I do not want that responsibility. I want to stay far away from that as...

Honestly, for me, assuming a D&D-like game, if I don't have at least one character die on me (as a player), I feel like I wasn't really...

Because there are some (many) games that you don't want to play in an immersive fashion. To me, those kinds of complaints feel somewhat...

I said that in response to your claim that it would be. You didn't back yours up, so I didn't have to either. So, yeah, among those DMs...

I don't use TIBFs (they don't exist in my version of 5e. People make up their own versions of that stuff for themselves at my table.

This is a great example of my point. Also one of the strengths of the YZE system generally - it's very hackable.