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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...

The more I think about this, the more I think Shadowdark would be a good choice.

I’m thinking special effects department missed the memo that space is Big(tm) and believe it to roughly the same size as a small village...

N'Var, I think. It's a plot point from Discovery.

True, but it’s great sci fi. It did the Silurian hypothesis before Doctor Who, it did alien autopsies before the X Files, it did aliens...

You are so three dimensional!

Yeah, done that. Works better than having the players bringing out all their meta knowledge. The best way to run a Ravenloft game...

In isolation, this looked interesting! On the other hand, I’m having a hard time imaging how this is going to work, since we’re talking...

I'm using the 5e ecosystem with 2024 as the base rules with a dash of Black Flag, A5e and 2014 for exactly this campaign. They're...

Yes I have, and seen it performed on stage. And it’s excellent. Definitely my favourite work by Lovecraft. Slog? I’ve heard a lot of...