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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...

Well, I'll give them this: "We make all these cool minitures, let's make a dedicated RPG to justify use of all of them!" is a clever take.

for those who prefer pen/paper there's an easy solution - copy that stuff onto a piece of paper either long-hand or print it out. The...

Core 5e2014 runs pretty fast, specially if you play with no feats. Part of why it runs so fast is lack of options. Usually, it's speed...

Negative levels from earlier editions are a dreadful mechanic. It can permanently nerf a character vs. their fellow party members...

Is it safe for my character to put pineapple on their pizza now???

In my experience, hit point bloat isn't really a problem - PCs grind through monster hit points much faster than you'd expect. In fact...

5.x having PHB spells in monster statblocks is a big part of why I am in fact running a different game: 13th Age 2e. Having to...

Much more the latter. Most are aware that AI can write much better than them, in a technical sense, and a disproportionate number of the...

Nothing wrong indeed! As a matter of fact, I now deliberately plan for campaign endings in my homebrew games because it feels good to...

Negative levels were fussy to deal with, unfun for players, and messes with keeping players at the same level in an era where many...