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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...

It would be a "old man shakes fist at cloud" type post if it were simply saying that digital media are bad solely because they are...

Even in a game as tightly edited as 1e, a few contradictions are bound to slip by...

I totally agree. But I'm guessing the player would feel the same way...that the GM is being contrary and disruptive and maybe wrecking...

This is what I observed with 2e as well. Looking back, I can't help but think the playerbase wanted campaigns to be ran in such a way...

Its clean, it doesnt bother going into detail that should be reserved for a technical design or legal document, it understands that the...

Or maybe not session 0, but certainly once it is understood what this player is up to. "Hey, look, I'm not going to say you can't...

Not true. I teach adults. Many of my students who are fresh out of high school prefer to study from physical books as well. Text book...

I've always found those labels very....odd. It has always seemed to me that the version where you have to roll to be told how to...

I think you might be conflating a number of different things. Particularly with what was published and not. In terms of wild variety in...

You still don't seem to be understanding. So let's keep it all in genre. We're playing 5e D&D and my fighter wants to call on the god...