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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...

Hell yeah! The book does have a lot of that lore/storytelling thing going on in it, but it's a lot more streamlined than the COFD...

"Longer marathon type meta" functionally doesn't exist. I'm 100% certain that there are real GMs out there who actually do run things...

This. Eventually 5E will run out of steam. They'll avoid the rage if the vast majority want something new. I expect that to happen...

Everything you're saying is true, but it is hilarious to hear it put like that.

Cthulhu is also in the sixth Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book (the posthumous one not written by Douglas Adams). For a certain type...

Strahd is around 1-10, Tyranny of Dragons is 1-15, Lost Mines & Pandelver and Below, Ghosts of Saltmarsh, and Rime of the Frostmaiden...

I strongly dislike explicit meta-currency, because generally speaking it puts a thumb on the scale narratively, which is a place I want...

No, but saving throws are generally easier across the board because not only do you not add spell level to the DC of a save, but you...

Welcome to the endgame. ;) One thing I recommend before starting is to curate what you want in your setting. For D&D, I literally go...