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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...

Because the post I was responding to made a claim about the value of 1st and 2nd level as experiences for the character. That poster was...

Justice League Unlimited featured a lot of John Stewart.

I once had to intern at a Kinkos in the Abyss and it was just the worst.

Let's review You made the claim My point is there is nothing inherently more profitable inherent in a PDF than in a print product. Both...

I have been playing--mostly GMing--ttrpgs since 1981. I've run and played numerous games: D&D (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th), Call of Cthulhu...

So, Burning Wheel is not particularly narrow in terms of premise. As long as characters have beliefs they are willing to fight for...

If I recall correctly, Grim Tales by Bad Axe Games was a fantasy RPG built on the d20 Modern chassis.

The Basic DM has run an adventure or two, probably official adventures, or even mediocre, homebrewed adventures that everyone still...

There being twenty levels in D&D kinda implies that long games are possible if not expected. Though most RPGs have smaller advancement...