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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...

Yes, yes and yes.

My doubt is if mr.Squid was in the demiplane of the dread then it can't be in our Earth. Although maybe this is not really the "100%"...

I mean to each their own, but the thing is it NEVER gets scary. it does not slow burn toward anything horrifying. At least IMO. Not like...

I get that. But in this case, the makers of Achtung! Cthulhu pivoting to Achtung! Werewolf Nazis feels pretty reasonable.

I gotta disagree with you there. It’s a slow burn, but many of the best horror stories are.

Death of the Author is one thing, but also his beliefs are deeply ingrained into is writing. And I’m not just talking about Rats in the...

The Dark Powers themselves seem ripe for this. Cosmic horror, as you say, loses a lot of its power the more it's defined and detailed...

Yeap, the procedural is probably more in line with what @Lanefan does. Long running campaigns where the main cast changes as needed...

I’d note that Personality Traits, Ideals, Bonds, and Flaws are not codified things in 5.5e, so those lines could probably be used for...