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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...

One of my more out-there fanon theories is that Krynn is actually a domain in Ravenloft, with Takhisis the unknowingly imprisoned...

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No, the Outer Gods in my Cosmology and template are outside the usual classification of divine scale. For the alignment they are all in...

I think Morrus means that it makes him think of Dark Sun. It does share the same genre (post-apocalyptic fantasy) but has it's own...

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...

I'm warming up to DM's metacurrency because oftentimes, "DM doing whatever they want" is often 1) unnecessarily antagonistic and 2) an...

I think Draw Steel Malice shouldn't be thought of as a counter to hero tokens, but rather to the various Heroic Resources the heroes...

Have you looked at Critical Role's desperate measures mechanic to trade automatic failure on death saving throws for other benefits to...

I agree, and even more so when the GM metacurrency is at least partially tied to the PC's actions. This is one area where 2d20 has some...