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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...

But the in-world reality isn’t “picks a feat, which everyone gets a choice of at adulthood.” That’s how the ability is gated for PCs. It...

I actually chuckled at "Nimble is a rules TIGHT game!" and saw the books: That's a lot of pages for a rules tight game ;)

IMNSHO, the "luck" part comes from the old Picard addage: it's possible to make no mistakes and still lose. You can put in the work...

Three bandits from Reaper. I took my sweet time.

I enjoyed many of the early AL adventures tied to the adventure releases, they were nicely done even if the maps and such were bare...

I personally think anyone expecting Seasons of Champions having anything to do with a Dark Sun release is going to be sorely disappointed.

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

Read Trauma Industrial Complex by Darren McGarvey, a Scottish rapper and writer who has written prominently and eloquently about his...

True. There's no point declaring, "I won't consume artwork if it looks like it was created using generative AI." A better metric would...