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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...

Absolutely. And I change those for my game via house rules. I don't ask for the game to change to match my desires so that everyone...

Apparently, I need to repeat myself. I didn't say there was any "problem".

Mind Flayer just makes the floor explode under the PCs with HIS AWESOME MIND POWERS In fact, this is the idea I have for this fight...

I don't think that was an issue. The trick to GMing here was - you don't need to know 100 different maneuvers. You only need to know the...

I would agree with this. I think adding longer-term consequences to being knocked out of combat has some solidly positive effects on...

if i were trying to cut the armour table down as essential as possible but still as nuanced as possible i'd cut down the number of...

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...

SJA3 Crystal Spheres (2e) 2e Vampire, Undead Lord, Lord of the Undead, Western Vampire, Potent Undead Lord: Any human or humanoid...

De-escalation is simply a matter of self preservation. British police don’t carry firearms so it is in their interest to resolve...

The best compromise I've been able to make is to have nothing really hit you solidly until you run out of HP and fall down, but have...