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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...

I agree with the sentiment that it should be a background (or several, maybe one per clan or region). Dex/Wis/Cha is fine, but I would...

There's quite a lot of spells (and thus, potential demand for means to cast 'em more often) that'd be useful for rulers and governments...

Sure. But are those the majority of the magic items out there? And, indeed, do active adventures really represent the majority of...

Considering the size of their team and their budget, I enjoyed the game. Don't expect AAA writing from a AA game.

Its less about gamism than the fact modern gamers--and again, I think this trend started a long time ago now--have leaned into genre...

What RPGs do you prefer? Sounds like we have a lot in common.

yes, but collected from adventurers. :LOL:

My favourite part of shadowrun was always doing legwork and then spending like an hour or more ironing out the heist plan with the guys...

I can't fathom why. We KNOW it's not real. How could it scare someone? Also, from the other posters in this thread, it hardly seems...

Sounds about right. We're just not their target customer anymore. They've moved on. I think the answer is to just play (or make) the...