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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...

Two more Weird War Tales issues. But first. Damn do I love this comic. As much as I love Tales from the Crypt, that’s mostly from the...

Spells are just codified abilities not connected to classes or feats. Once you see spells as abilities that are magic, you understand...

Sovereign citizens must love this loophole.

Sure, but it's a loose approximation, right? I'm not sure it's all that different in nature from metacurrencies that represent things...

I don't know what 'reasonably possible' means here. Lots of games have very contrived game systems, for example turn-based ones. No-one...

A weird little something I just noticed with the 5.5e vampire: their Bite is now a Con save that deals no damage on a success. Willing...

Here I was more referring to the idea that if metacurrency creates a particular result, you can present that in an artificial and...

I think maybe there is a lot being lost here, dunno where you got any of that. Let's recap. You wanted an example of how metacurrency...

I think it depends how you think of them. You could think of them as spending extra effort. As a real-world example, when I would fight...