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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...

Yeah, I expect any modern writer would take a more nuanced approach. It wouldn’t affect anything apart from the end, which didn’t...

The point is that comics, even for heroes like Spiderman and the Hulk, have never been consistent, let alone highly consistent. Hell...

The point is that measurement doesn't matter when the measurements are 3, 7, 4, 3, 9, 12, 2, 5, and ?(whatever the next guy is going to...

TIL that New Orleans has a big St Patrick's Day thing. This is our first time here and we chose to come after Mardis Gras to avoid the...

How very.

So, that's actually an interesting bit. Because, those of us who have doe or currently do actual simulation of reality for, say...

Nobody wants to read a dry old textbook about what it means to be human, about trauma, or leadership, or ethical living, or the like...

But the in-world reality isn’t “picks a feat, which everyone gets a choice of at adulthood.” That’s how the ability is gated for PCs. It...

Because statistically most people in history were farmers, therefore it stands to reason that most priests and clerics originated as...