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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...

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

"A Death in the Family" ranges from solid to very good. Some of it's rather dated, but -- but! -- the art is fantastic, just classic...

Sure, but in a lot of cases MC's also represent things that have happened, or been considered, in time that the game-at-table has...

Some play styles chase immersion specifically, which is fine and cool. Where the mistakes creep in is when people want to talk about it...

The problem I have with this is that it puts a game like Pendragon, widely regarded as Greg Stafford's magnum opus, in the category of...

I mean, they are clearly talking about themselves. i don't think we need to assume every poster is making proclamations about how other...

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...