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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 always answer these questions with "any version of D&D can work if you build to it's strengths." For example: Phandevler and Below has...

Note: The "which D&D" part of the question includes D&D simulacra and adjacent games, from OSE to Shadowdark to Pathfinder. But not like...

Horrible is a bit strong. I’ve played lots of out of print or no longer supported games as well as current ones and I know which I’d...

It's also worth noting that Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone has a campaign model called Home & Hearth that focuses on the PCs being...

Literally all that leaves is Hughie and MM. Which is fine.

That would be Stonehell, I presume.

The Below part suffers from a tonal shift and classic WotC writing issues, but it's an example of an multi-level campaign centered...

So the rules can make people roleplay characters instead of doing the best thing for the player by forcing them to act? How can they...

Let's take Sleep as an example of what they changed. Old version: 20 foot sphere that put 5d8 HP worth of monsters to sleep - lowest HP...