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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...

Somebody noted that when we domesticated cats we did it with A) One of the two most social groups of them in the world and B) Pretty...

I don’t know, at a minimum the unconscious use is a problem for me. That is no better than an actual luck mechanic, in neither case is...

That in some cases or for certain areas, when things are uncertain, we look to the dice or other rules to guide us. The most basic...

Im not sad at all, id actually be pretty happy if folks stopped the Thor talk in here. It does have a Men in Black meets True Detective...

I would say yes; it's an attack roll that you're rolling because of the spell, and the spell specifically affects the attack roll. If...

And they expect about 1200 words per day, and pay for revisions, which also comes to $50/hr.

Applies in a slightly more refined way to Eclipse Phase too, for similar reasons.

My local hobby store currently has a discord and a bulletin board.

My wife and I have been playing early access the last few days (pausing to play Pirate Borg/take our youngest shopping). Avoiding...

Well, you know my usual response to that: "You're using D&D why then?" Its been a poor choice for that from the day it came in three...