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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...

Nice, but the video maker DID make one error- the Ronans were making sandwiches in the 1st century AD, thousands of years before the...

In play I try - in vain, often, but I do try - to discourage the use of actual numbers when talking about hit points, preferring instead...

Nobody wants to read a dry old textbook about what it means to be human, about trauma, or leadership, or ethical living, or the like...

Some of these would be great character portraits if they were standing alone and not overlapping with other characters in the image. :)

Here's one from the 1990s movie, The Odyssey And Wrath of the Titans in 2012 And of course all based off of Polyphemus

I ran it years ago for university rpg club. Explained the rules in 5 minutes. Basically DC 5,10,15,20 etc. Hit that number or...

Only if the attack hits. The poison has to have been potentially delivered in order for a saving throw to even be required.

Star Wars D6 is a great ruleset, and relatively simple to learn. It even has relatively straightforward rules for “I shoot the Death...

In play I try - in vain, often, but I do try - to discourage the use of actual numbers when talking about hit points, preferring instead...

Technically its an old one;). Might buy it myself.

Simplicity and granularity is a scale, but I think 5e is slightly, not very, too far to one side. If you have every character trying to...