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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...

They gain feats as they gain corruption, its a bribe/temptation for MOAR POWAR. Through gameplay. (edit) "Do I use the forbidden...

I immediatelly had flashback to 3.5 taint. You do not want anyone to see your taint, as you never know how people may react to being...

Excelsior!

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

Yea, that’s a fair critique. I’m definitely influenced by my play groups’ lack of desire to play classical heroic archetypes.

{deity} no. We start at 1st level once, maybe twice, each edition. After that its usually 5th, 9th, or 11th. Part of that is that we...

I've been using 1-2, 3-7, and 9-10 as the tiers. But using proficiency bonus is interesting, it would allow for weaker characters to...

The definition for the word, edition, is a particular form or version of a published text. I don't think the e means escapable. 😛

Death at -10 had to have come in a lot earlier than 1989 (2e release), as we were using it by about 1983 (or maybe sooner?) and it's not...