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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...

Soth came back to Krynn in around 1999 as far as I can remember, and Weis and Hickman killed him off there in a novel in the early...

At present, most AI is not properly monetized. In other words, people aren't supporting the full cost of the AI data centers. The costs...

Yeah I see that, but still I think the original idea of CR is to indicate the risk of sudden death (which is an individual matter, not a...

But we know you, by the end of the year you'll be up to 1800... ;)

In my experience. 1. Players moving (as in geographically IRL). 2. GM burnout. I often hear scheduling being a major concern, but for...

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I prefer starting at level 1 when possible, though our group will often start at level 3 or level 5. Honestly I'd prefer to start at...

It's 2am and I can't sleep so have bardthoughts. Bards are supposed to be the 5th man. In 5e, they're a spellcaster who can do social...