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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 work with or work for, many of the people who created some of these games, and Vampire is a great example. Design language has...

Yes. ;)

I think this is writing off a whole lot of interesting RPGs simply because they aint D&D. Also, things you like or prefer have nothing...

What's confusing? Archetype published the two books in a very limited run available only to folks on their newsletter. You can't get...

Sounds like a good time. :D

I think playstyle is important and the distinction of calling them opinionated isnt necessary. Part of the design evolution of RPGs is...

Currently reading Band of Blades and though I haven’t played it, it seems to qualify. The strongly intended playstyle is military...

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...

So again: super-clear text and layout is the foundation. :)

Up thread I added: So there are different ypes. And, of course, folks have different definitions. But broadly "metacurrency" refers to...