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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...

Was it the emotes or the raiding?

Fantasy Craft was my D&D 3.5 heartbreaker. I have the books sitting on my shelves, I've spent hours reading them and gushing over them...

I miss the era. I miss the wild west feel of publishing and eventually the wheat separating from the chaff. We got some really solid 3rd...

It's how it was played in general when I was there (which most were not, even on these forums. I was only a teen at the time, and I'm...

I didn’t. The what now?

So far, yes. The problem is not being able to tell, the problem is being able to prove it.

I would rather watch* Captain America 1 than any of those. *okay, I don’t think anyone ever made a movie of The Wasteland, so you can’t...

I can’t stand ragebait.

Giant Freakin Robot is pretty good, actually. Irreverent articles on nerd culture, basically, but generally from a place of love. As...

I would still prefer it if they used clearly defined words rather than vague numbers, letters, or colors. Something simple like: I...