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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...

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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...

THe cartoon "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" did a better job of introducing both Thor and Captain America (and their worlds) in 22...

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

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

That quote resonates a lot with me. The older I get, the more I think about how basic realities like untreated, untreatable chronic pain...

Perhaps this would help -- Whether you like them/use them or not, you're familiar with the wandering monster checks in TSR-era A/D&D...

Yeah, honestly, I tend to think that if you want a measured damage model (i.e. one that buffers a sudden death/takeout result)...

As an update: Having hit our goal in about 22 hours, we're now just over 200% funded. That means we'll be including a PCs'...

Ah. I already play a lot of that game. The GM is a PITA and won't let us do anything cool. The 1:1 scale map they made of the game...