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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...

Well, if there’s no chance of being afraid, then why are any kind of fear rules being invoked? Again, getting away from D&D-esque...

For me, that has nothing to do with agency. Spending 3 sessions (twenty HOURS?!? of game play) as a rabbit would be so mind numbingly...

Having an entry market is not the same as having a primary or target market. For example, a coffee shop usually carries hot cocoa for...

Some Lego kits have basically become 3-dimensional puzzles that allow you to build things like the USS Enterprise-D or an Imperial Star...

None of the evidence you've presented does this. The 12+ boxed set is due to the size of the objects within the box. To go lower...

The Starter Sets are 12+ because of safety laws, not target marketing

They did kind of do that with one of the latest starter set "Heroes of the Borderlands", didn't they? It's only up to level 3, but...

First Dark Lord to deal with both alimony and a chronic skin condition.

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...