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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 know lots of people do it, I just don’t get how you don’t get bored.

Liches are a lot stronger now than they were in original 5e. And Szass Tam is stronger than a standard Lich.

It was everything being identical in nature only different in theme. Attack does 1d6 damage, but you get your pick of fire, ice, or...

Then I want 6e to be a 3d holodeck created by hyper intelligent AI. Rules for imagination are so 20th century.

I think magic typically gets a pass in these situations because it’s not the game telling a player how a character feels so much as how...

No, I get it. I’ve done it before. But I think the distinction here is I perceive that external model as still being you. A set of...

There's a lot of subjective opinion and personal preference here. A specific definition of "proper" immersion. The dice "screwing you...

Then I want 6e to be a 3d holodeck created by hyper intelligent AI. Rules for imagination are so 20th century.

I don't really think so. Though he needed to unpack it more, the same general situation could come up in almost any trad game, and...