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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...

Our Fading Suns game has meta-currency points based on landing critical success, but failures give points to the GM. The GM had built up...

to a degree maybe, but I feel that my usage is a pretty normal usage of the term precisely, this is the kind of equal I am talking...

So, they are called COMIC books. People running around in spandex, wearing their underwear on the outside, beating each other up...

I do find it interesting that some folks do not want an intrusion into the fiction by an outside, or meta, force -- EXCEPT the GM. The...

This sounds like a skill issue. I find it trivially easy to incorporate such things into a consistent narrative. You just build on the...

After reading the first sentence of the article, how surprised do you remain? On a scale of 1-10 from 'raising an eyebrow' to 'gasping...

So I think this is the main issue with discussion about this. To me, there’s no discernible difference between hit points and expertise...

This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between March 26 to April 8. I’ve included options that involve kaiju...

It was just easier and less confusing to say 5.5 versus 5.24, 5e2024, etc. I guess we could have used 5R, or 5er. May have been fun to...

It took them a while to make that Insight check. :p