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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...

I would if the class system in 5e didn't defer class identity to 3rd level with the same cockeyed and cackhanded multiclassing rules in...

Many years ago, because of space considerations (and back problems), I started to digitize my library. Even then, I mostly stuck to PDF...

Exactly. And this forum is an extreme outlier in terms of the number of folks still regularly playing old versions of D&D, OSR, etc...

For me, one big advantage of physical books is the quickness of opening the book and randomly exploring. No waiting for a device to...

TBH, strength, dex, and con should all be 30 or beyond. A lot of people don't realize just how truly overpowered Superman is.

Again, this is about influence, not dictation or control.

What I want is impactful consequences to meaningful social situations that can potentially be detrimental, whether the Player wants...

And what happens to the game or to the people at the table if none of the options are "suitable" (and to whom)?

What I want is impactful consequences to meaningful social situations that can potentially be detrimental, whether the Player wants...

One I remember is item saving throws. One of the reasons that Cone of Cold was higher level than Fireball was because it was less likely...