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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...

There is the sexism element, but probably the bigger issue is the pre-WW2 "eugenics yay" stuff built into the basic premise - the...

The lunar sorcerer was one of the things wrong with it, since it was a complete disconnect with established DL lore. What that needs is...

Whoops, you seem to have lost your empathy somewhere. Would you like me to help you find it?

interesting way to phrase it when D&D is about 80% of the hobby…

Yea, definitely still a relevant distiction. I haven't seen those specific terms before, but I've definitely referenced the idea of...

Aragorn literally uses healing hands, telepathy, safely(due to his superhuman willpower) uses the palantir, and commands the dead. In...

Not addressing @Thomas Shey specifically here. I think it's worth noting (since folks love to talk about how unpopular my preferences...

They'd have to decide what to do with the period-piece elements. Same problem Skylark has (though maybe even worse there).

It’s not news, George Lucas is on record saying he was influenced by Lensmen. It’s remarkable how forgotten Doc Smith is now, given...

I doubt they’d do that, but you can always play as something else already, you do not need any new subclasses for that