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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...

Or there are more, but it is stuff that is barely changed from first release and thst was popular. Not thst much comes to mind. Or...

I don't think that's the kind of slavery that WotC would be shy of, in particular if they made leading a revolt a big part of the plot...

For my groups, it didn't play out that way. It's a case where only some are paralyzed by it, but them who are are likely heavily...

Hot take: the Artificer really ought to have been in the new PHB.

Or there are more, but it is stuff that is barely changed from first release and thst was popular. Not thst much comes to mind. Or...

This is actually one of the reasons I sigh heavily whenever metacurrency comes up. I completely agree that "I know it when i see it" is...

I'm envious. He's one of a handful of designers whose mechanics work I really appreciate.

This is a great argument centered in moral relativism. I think I am going to take it .... we have to think about the greater good here!

It’s just that constraint can help focus things and shape creativity. If someone says “tell a story”, that’s a pretty broad request. If...

You don't suggest this was done in some moment of desperate need, or a hard choice made between unsavory alternatives. No justification...