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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...

In an old Warhammer Fantasy RPG, being at 0 hp did not knock you out but once you ran out of HP, you suffer griveous wounds. So maybe...

Real or not, yes, it was entertaining.

This is a more reasonable comment. I think those two monsters are an aberration, though, rather than representative. We saw with the...

I have mixed feelings. I’m glad people are (seemingly) becoming more skeptical. But I hate it when skepticism is levied at one of my...

After years of buying from Wilson’s leather, my last 2 pairs- one fingerless, one winter dress- were both from Etsy sellers. The prices...

I my home campaign the party just celebrated their last night in the city of Nicodranas with nachos and margaritas at a pirate-themed...

When they are announced with a showrunner, or a producer, or a network, or a major actor, or have been purchased for production, or have...

Usually, yes. In 5e, so far, always, but to be fair, I was a very late and reluctant adaptor of 5e. But in all editions forever, it's...

I got 60%. But that's a rather silly experiment. A single small paragraph doesn't reveal the inherent weakness of AI. You need to take a...

The individual human did not create the language they write in, nor did they create the literary metaphors that exist in culture, our...