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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 mean that's the needle they are trying to thread right now.

Honestly, I don't think anybody is too worried about justifying this within past continuity any longer. WotC Dragonlance isn't old TSR...

This is great. Bardsongs remind me of the Chanter class from Pillars of Eterny, which I really like. I’ve tinkered around with a Bard...

I've been looking back at the Conan d20 game, I think it has some things I'd bring into 3e if I went back to it. The way they handled...

That's true. The real trick would be to make stories that feel authentic to the setting but aren't copies of the game. A while back I...

Its worth considering the UAs that haven't made final products yet (so ignoring the Artificer/Eberron and Forgotten Realms ones) Horror...

I think cleaning up the relationship between the Barbarian and NWP's is a big part of cleaning up the class. I can't really endorse...

One of the reasons I like GM facing metacurrencies is because it helps alleviate the question of whether the GM was acting fairly. Don't...

5.1 would have made a lot more sense. And I agree that I don’t think we’ll see major changes to the game again that require abandoning...