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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...

Because one of the two people involved seems to think it’s a possibility. I’d say the same if a player had an idea that the GM didn’t...

Full size book would be 80, not 60. So no.

I dont mind the early levels as I usually need a little time to bring my character to life. Though, reading some of these posts I could...

I don't find the first levels boring at all. I get why you wouldn't play them because of their lethality, but otherwise, they are very...

My partner is the real crime fiction expert, but I think it’s fairly typical of Marsh. In fact Alleyn is so bland that I think she is...

Ngaio Marsh was a Kiwi (not Māori, I think, despite the name) but spent a lot of her time (not most, several chunks of several years) in...

There are still a lot of classic mystery authors I haven't read yet, but what sets Marsh apart from Stout (US), Tey or Sayers (UK), and...

the joke doesn't even make sense. dnd's main product is dnd books, not dice. if anything he should be pretending to eat a phb or something.

We ditched xp in d&d more than decade ago in favor of milestone leveling. How fast or slow PCs level, depends entirely on the vibes of...