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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...

Someone who, to simplfy the situation, starts with an extra couple points each of Will, Strength and Constitution isn't "doing anything...

Yeah… that is an insanely high bar to set. Okay GM… accomplish what professional writers accomplish! Oh, and do it for multiple...

Thank you very much for the material. One question though: what about the pantheon? I think I'll streamline it to using the 5e/SCAG...

Pretty much this. Neopets is a 'family friendly' game primarily aimed at children/tweens but still enjoyed by older players (many of the...

Draw Steel addresses the ‘what are HP’ question head-on by having Stamina as the thing which gets whittled away. It is explicitly...

I will give the benefit of the doubt, that the reference may be regional, however, for those of you thus concerned, officially I used...

PF2e goes hard in this direction of high-level adventurer-relevant commerce, using a combination of levels, rarity and access. Items...

5e was too afraid to outright say which effects were supposed to be gated behind a tier. I don't know if this was because they wanted...

You are correct, as they cannot sheathe a weapon as a free object interaction to cast the Shield spell as a reaction. But there are very...

Entertaining. Basically, everyone's dead: