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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...

That's my general go-to, but I do like narrating a good, visceral hit on occasion as well. But again, I've alleviated this by simply...

[This is another htread in my ongoing exploration of foundational TTRPG elements to consider for Bucket: The RPG, my personal RPG design...

GM Burnout, or scheduling conflicts. I think people plan for yearlong campaigns or longer, but I always found 3-4 months (something we...

personally, I think its sad that potatoes are so ubiquitous as I absolutely love Turnips! and make a point of putting turnips, parsnips...

Some of the absolute best "roleplaying" I've seen in a TTRPG came when we started a session of Stonetop and I was like "hey Nik, do you...

I think I agree. Or at least, I think the "being scared" has to be generated by some sort of internal effort, a willing oneself into a...

Warehouse space isn’t expensive. I don’t even know what we pay it’s such a minor cost compared to the actual cost of developing a book...

Specifically, concessions are the player agreeing to their character being ‘taken out’ of a scene and in return they get some agency on...

I base my game on the world I want to create, and make sure the mechanics fit that, not the other way around.

that’s great, but my claim was not that whatever system you are concocting would not lead to a low magic setting, it was that when...

That's absolutely true. Perfect sim is impossible. But acceptable sim, for me, definitely is. As far as picking your battles goes, I...