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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...

I mean, Lord have mercy on anything that runs afoul of a group of Level 13 Adventurers fresh from a long rest.

I think it's legitimate to want to play a version of Galahad or Percival or Aragorn, as much as a slightly modernised Lancelot.

Since @Steampunkette designed this (brilliantly) and @TheSword liked it a lot, and I am due to play a bard in the Sword’s Waterdeep...

That’s for DMs to use, true, but they do have the mirror Shadowfell in published Adventures, too.

Have you looked at the art? Seen anything that looks like Thay or any other Forgotten realms location? We have Alustriel in Sigil, and a...

Enhanced. Extra!

Well, they don't use the same rules. They use largely the same PC building rules. But the rules for framing, consequence, preparation...

If a tree falls in the Shadowfell and there is no PC to observe it, does it make any sound?

Yup, it's basically pretty simple in theory but hard to pull off: make stuff people want in theory, and then deliver well in practice...