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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...

One of my best and longest running groups came off a bulletin board in a comic store.

Does your store have a bulletin board to post signups on? Some of the FLGS near me have that, others just seem to host games for...

If Giant Freakin Robot's click bait video titles hadn't already, this would add them to my ignore list.

If you're ever in the market again, you could have a look at Bristol Leathers in Quebec. They've been around for decades and I've owned...

If you're referring to me, let me explain. I have been running games since 1989. I own and have played dozens of systems that aren't 5E...

Closed campaigns like that was default way we played over 20 years ago in HS. It just made sense. And we played homebrew settings and...

Three bandits from Reaper. I took my sweet time.

I'd like to point you to 13th Age. It came out before 5e and was the most anticipated RPG of the year, being a D20 created by lead...

5.x having PHB spells in monster statblocks is a big part of why I am in fact running a different game: 13th Age 2e. Having to...

I don't think that was an issue. The trick to GMing here was - you don't need to know 100 different maneuvers. You only need to know the...