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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...

Girl in cake? Standard. Basilisk? Johnathan

Good gods either Frontier, Discord, or both were being big jerks tonight.

Wizards like a shotgun ahell. Load up and fire. Once you've loaded it you just fire it. Monks ha e to consider est option to use and...

Ubiquitous? Disagree. relatively common? Sure.

Yeah, but the archtype of the contingency-planning character is a super-genius, smarter than anyone at your table, with more in-world...

Some other games where that kind of incompatibility is present: Traveller: The New Era was a different engine (well, distantly related...

1. Eliminate weapon masteries, let Fighters alone choose one weapon mastery from the list and that mastery applies to any attack they...

That's really more of a people-with-powers setting. You can do that with some systems, but its not going to look much like a superhero...

I have to point out that's back to something you've been on the other side of in other threads: "You can't play this kind of character...

This is exactly what I was thinking. For me it 100% makes sense to have a table what a hard DC by level is, but not the same things...