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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...

It depends greatly on the goals the players come up with. If a PCs goal is to explore the world, then exploring the world is not only...

Today I played for nearly two hours with my wife, daughter (age 8), and son (age 6). My wife had never played D&D before. My kids have...

Yesterday I ran a little homebrew mystery in the Keep on the Borderlands using the new starter set. I didn’t have time to flesh out the...

numbers are always up for grabs, but if you value origin feat at 1 pt, then general feat would be 2 on average. Drop the ASI from...

I dislike the bespoke "PC things" in most cases because it creates a rules exception based environment and much of the rules...

Shadowfell is still the Dark Reflection plane, in much the same way Feywild is still the Bright Reflection plane. The domains on either...

According to the portion of text that is visible, this Cthulhu is not a prisoner. Every time you adapt a literary character, you create...

It's in the 1e DMG. If you are reduced exactly to 0 HP, you do not die, but are unconscious and lose 1 HP per round until you reach -10...

The party has need of the favor of the Sunken God. They are preparing for an upcoming quest, where they must journey underwater to find...