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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...

Elves would have a hard time getting to those limits anyway due to another oft-forgotten (or discarded) rule: they couldn't come back...

How I interpret it to avoid the complete player/character decisions disconnect, is that every hit point has at least a little bit of...

Hard disagree. Hit points are an abstraction, but they still represent something real in the fiction that the character can experience...

For players, I like metacurrency that gives players storytelling levers that go beyond their character actions, because they are as...

And thus, in one fell swoop of inspiration, was invented the Ring of Regeneration. :)

-- Having now cut out a bunch of my ceiling, and portions of my bathroom, I want to pay respect to one of the best purchases of my...

We quoted that non-stop at our tables when the movie first came out. Every NPC we ran across, we promised to kill them last.

Unless you have it that hit points represent fatigue, nicks, scratches, and suchlike as well as just luck; thus meaning the character...

I'll agree (ish) that Thor 1 was not a good movie. It was passable super hero action nonsense. But of course Asgardians use horses and...