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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...

Sure, but to me the standard healing rules feel like an absurd action movie parody.

Yeah. In most versions of D&D and similar games, you can't really be "injured" at all, because hit point damage has no effect at all...

Also in the context that the original D&D designers were running multiple sessions a week, some lasting over 12 hours, including as many...

I have these books, and they are absolutely beautiful. Just gorgeous to read through. I bought them because of @SlyFlourish, whose...

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Though to be fair, with the current natural healing rates this is absurd too. How can you have suffered real injuries if you're...

I don’t know if I’ve brought it up in THIS thread before, but I’ve cooked for our dogs for more than 15 years. At first, it was ground...

that is not what @Umbran wrote. The question was ‘Do you understand the reasons folks want GMs to follow some rules, generally?’

One of the New England regional conventions I regularly attend and run games is doing a big Shadowdark tournament with a module written...

Right but every time the previous blows landed, there is a very high probability that the fiction was about getting hit: bruises, blood...