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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...

I find levels 3-5 to be the sweet spot for 5e (either version). And I don’t want to just start in the sweet spot, because then the game...

Always. We recently finished a campaign at level 20 that I honestly hated for the last six months. Going back to level 1 and generally...

Speaking personally having to have an internal model of a character that includes things like unwanted feelings, intrusive thoughts and...

I found it pretty fast to run combats and with experienced agents they did feel significantly high-powered. People were pushing...

No, sadly. Mecha-Hitler publicly challenges his rivals to fights, but then he keeps making excuses to get out of it.

I'm giving XP for a player to have his character ditch the main party, put the entire campaign storyline at risk, for him to attempt to...

I would give it a try. You can all see for yourselves if you like the changes, and you'll learn the new rules for any future 5.5 games...

Yeah, over the course of this thread I've been starting to understand that. And I find it super interesting.

So... Guns are kinda "Whatever", ultimately. In reality, guns essentially (but not entirely) negated armor outside of very thick and...