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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...

Cool climate, nice valleys, and the less bad state for being a worker. Seriously, you guys live in an awful corporate dystopia.

vs solo monsters, yes, but those fights are bad design by default. action economy and debuffs will "stunlock" the solo opponent. with...

Strong Combat buffs last for 1 minute, so that should be target duration of most fights, so you feel rushed to finish it before your...

Love Die Spitz. Kind of the only band I want to see at Outsidelands this summer. So I guess I just saved $600?

Track 2 from the new Haiduk album Archdevil

I cast 'Restore Je Ne Sais Quoi' on Conan. That stab to the face really bummed him out.

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...

Yeah, sorry, elaborating on those takes doesn't cool them down any.

Just say no!

For D&D, I’ve gone full LitRPG. Hit points are explicitly supernatural resilience, that people are aware of and talk about. Not the...