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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...

You mean you don't choose your subclass at level 3? And even excluding that, I don't know about you, but personally I'm not in the...

It tracks. Hal doesn't really acknowledge Guy very much and everyone hates Guy.

Real life. When we were young, we had fewer responsibilities or at least responsibilities that were easier to shuffle around. As adults...

Getting more info on Algarond and Rashemen would make me very happy. Especially if it also has some magic items and maybe means some...

Because that way I can do other things at level three. Maybe more important things. You know, changing things up a bit. As a game with...

this is neither a compatibility issue nor a balance issue then… no one, and guess what, that is exactly how many should choose it when...

There's also the "negative reinforcement", which I think has at least two aspects to it: (1) For the player, if you don't earn artha -...

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We often start at 1, yes, unless I want a particularly heroic start to the game. Those first couple levels are delightfully gritty...