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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...

This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between March 26 to April 8. I’ve included options that involve kaiju...

It's a balancing act. Are they SO irritating that it's worth missing the occasional insight? Then block away. Make the boards a better...

I honestly don't get it myself. Pretty much D&D through every edition has worked way better in 1-10 range than above it, so I have no...

Your 1st and 3rd goals are directly at odds with each other; the style of powers seen in various incarnations of Vampire are typically...

2/5 are Murican. One has kiwi mom though. He grew up there until he was 18. Taken 16 years but he's almost a kiwi.

Another vote for Savage Worlds as an option for urban fantasy but with some more crunchy combat. The latest version of the Horror...

That’s not really an answer as to the “why”. Giving the players multiple characters to control slows the game down horribly. Running...

Compared to 5E and 5.5E D&D, A5E has much better utility/exploration development for all the classes. They get knacks et al., some of...

I want to follow up with an example, to make the point. Where I work, there's a top-down drive for AI tools. No mandate, but company...

Core 5e2014 runs pretty fast, specially if you play with no feats. Part of why it runs so fast is lack of options. Usually, it's speed...