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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...

D&D 4e was published as PDFs, but some pirated copies (of the print version not even the sold pdf version...) came up and WotC panicked...

But keeping the number of players stable requires selling books. That’s the whole point. WotC isn’t as interested in retaining players...

Innovation. D&D is the industry standard and pretty much drives innovation. Each edition of D&D inspired many RPGs. Like the "similar...

Indeed, I think the last thing anyone could say about the TTRPG space is "ah man, I don't like what D&D is doing, but it's the only...

They did add older editions to Roll20 fairly recently, not that I disagree with you.

My reaction to the whole "1 and 2 are not real levels" is honestly the whole "these go to 11" scene from Spinal Tap. If you're meant to...

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...

I see no particular need, no.

I read the Batman graphic novel Arkham Asylum, by Grant Morrison. Good, but does not quite work for me. A bit too opaque in both...

Star Wars Paid twice for same job.