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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 do like the concept of removing the emphasis on full spellcasting. Long overdue and gives a lot more design space to play with now...

Duke Nukem is going to have the same disconnect: A property about a lone hero aimed squarely at a group. But, with Conan, it presents...

Quinns Quest is playing Ghostbusters International on their Play to Find Out actual play series. Very charming. I could definitely see...

Just make sure to abandon it when you are about 50% done so you can start making your own role-playing system instead. Then you will...

I think that's a little unfair. Words have connotational meanings even when they are used as terms of art. I don't think "opinionated"...

A lot of the textual changes have been in presentation and not substance. Even classes that had fairly significant changes like the...

I think it’s setting agnostic - only the adventure is FR, setting specific stuff will be in that.

We announced last year our friends at Studio Agate are the new developers for the 7th Sea roleplaying game, under license from Chaosium...

Duke Nukem is going to have the same disconnect: A property about a lone hero aimed squarely at a group. But, with Conan, it presents...