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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...

WotC rates the wizard lower in complexity than the warlock and Sorcerer. Just saying.

I swear you have not read the book.

🤷‍♂️ My players don't play that way. There's a lot of sneaking, a lot of parley, and when there is a fight, they fight dirty because...

This is the problem, I think, with trying to design games that are "balanced" mechanically: everything becomes a bit vanilla because...

What is the difficulty to shatter a door? To break some ropes? You struggle with such things after all the systems you've played? Open...

That's because Kelsey explicitly wanted people to be able to convert existing adventures, which is a huge part of it. (No one in real...

Along with, perhaps most important of all, nobility and the non-adventuring rich. Nobility might commission items that help with...

Oh that's a really good roll. Your character would get 5% to your find and +1 to your dice. This means when you go to find treasure your...

I have got other fool idea for Dragonlance. We start with a group of people from other world who notice they are reincarnated into other...

Dragonlance was well known and beloved for its novels. I've had friends who were really invested in them. But I don't think I've ever...