Latest activity

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...

Usually they're either fillable PDF sheets (you can bake some calculations into those) or spreadsheets. The problem with both is making...

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

In a perfect world, I might agree. Actual table experience, however just negates that. Players have been glossing over or forgetting...

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...

I find that while I can run using PDFs, if I want to learn and retain the information in the first place, I absolutely need a physical copy.

You make a really good point. In some ways it's because "reading content" vs. "just in time content" requires different formats. I'd...

All of these read like boogeyman versions of what someone who has never played with a metacurrency thinks that they are.

I've been fine with them ever since I was introduced to them in the Ghostbusters roleplaying game. For me... there is a distinct split...

I dare you to tell me it's worng

I agree, and even more so when the GM metacurrency is at least partially tied to the PC's actions. This is one area where 2d20 has some...