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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...

In the Army we called it Crawl, Walk, Run. I think the Scouts call it the EDGE method. Basically it is teaching methods of learning...

Maybe Manheim and Intergang have some (hopefully non-Apocalypse) weaponry, and are working through lesser minion members to corrupt a...

Oh yeah.. It's gross. Yeah, dogs don't have great hands, and not great shoulder mobility, so they've gotta get creative with the...

Despite hours spent scrolling through digital tools and PDFs, the nuances of the new system felt slippery, like trying to catch smoke...

Yes, it is at odds. That's why this is a compromise solution. But at least if there is several consequences to choose from , there is a...

I would agree if I felt WotC learned nothing from Shadow of the Dragon Queen. However, both the Eberron and Ravenloft books took the...

I see your default attitude hasn’t changed since you last hung out here

I think WotC has made it fairly obvious that they want an evergreen D&D product that they can iterate and revise upon, and I think the...

I find that while I can run using PDFs, if I want to learn and retain the information in the first place, I absolutely need a physical copy.

Some of it is luck, sure, but in a lot of ways, it's luck you make. You keep persisting in trying to find the right players, you don't...