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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...

That would be the function of math companies. It is, after all, their product. Though it does feel a bit derivative to joke about it...

It's not a narrative conceit. He's smart enough to have thought that far ahead. Because there is no way to accurately simulate that...

I’m rereading early Laird Barron stories via audiobook. 1. Ray Porter was and is a wonderful narrstor. He didn’t sound anything like...

Phil Campbell has passed https://www.kerrang.com/legendary-motorhead-guitarist-phil-campbell-has-died-aged-64

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I noted something similar earlier about the tendency of modern heist/caper RPGs to include a mechanism for flashbacks that change the...

Robin Laws gives good advice on this in one of the original HeroWars rulebooks (it might be in the Narrator Book, but maybe it's in the...

As I posted: In my experience, players use the numerical/mathematical information that their PCs' remaining hp give them all the time...

Yes, the whole thing smells funny.

And during the interim period they had people like Jessica Cruz and Jo Mullein (and Jade far as that goes). Let's not act like those...