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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...

Pastiche is what D&D is at it's core. Doing pastiche is D&D being itself. It's when it tries not to be pastiche that it becomes a bland...

At a very high level my preferred playstyle is for the GM to determine the outcome of most action declarations based on their own...

[Status Report] The Forge is Hot & The Tavern is Open! 🍻 A quick update for everyone following the project! Over the last 24 hours, the...

It's been 20 years since I played any kind of D&D (or D&D derivatives), but I've recently been roped into running a few game nights for...

I like the art. Of all those fun common magic items, I love the Cloak Of Billowing the best. :D

And I dislike generative AI. It harms people and it's inherently unethical. I am comfortable calling unethical things names. The term...

To me, there is a difference between physical products made by hand versus products made in a factory, possibly involving robots . . ...

I just finished The Ballad of Black Tom, a Lovecraftian novella by Victor LaValle. It’s a retelling of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Horror of...