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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...

I made my point earlier. But the basic is OSE is balanced with OSE. Swords and Wizardry is balanced with itself. TSR-era D&D is balanced...

I'd argue that one of the key things that makes certain spells and combat maneuvers iconic is that they have a one or two word name that...

Matt Colville discusses details of MCDM and the TTRPG industry. Matt shares details about the pay and benefits, as well as other...

In 2024, someone complained on Twitter (shocking!) about that image of a Heroes Feast spell conjuring dishes that would plausibly appear...

I was initially suprised to hear gamers are complaining about non-historically accurate food in RPGs. Then I realised "gamers" and...

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

I prefer carrot 🥕

I agree that WotC is largely disincentivized from pursuing a strategy of innovation over slow evolution. (More's the pity from my...

I had a literal 5 minutes to do some research and found an article from 2017 How Well is 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons Selling?. D&D...