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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...

This is a public service announcement. Do not keep your paint water next to your drink.

Except that training in AD&D is separate and required after acruing the XP. (Not that most play it that way.)

I have a nice collection of these in different styles, but I actually use an old round Tupperware container for my water both because I...

In both cases they are getting better at what they do through doing more of it, which is what's being abstracted by the xp system. In...

The xp tell you when you need to train, after which you have to at some point take some downtime and go do that training before you can...

Champions of Krynn, the computer game, involved Soth if I remember correctly. It had a player-created party, and cameos from some of the...

You both are right, for your preferred style, horror is hard. It's not about making characters scared, anxious, uncomfortable. It's...

Today I used Wraiths as super shadows. Changed the description added vulnerable to radiant. Only foght of the day PCs nova off. It...

Exploration pillar doesn't really work on 5E. Its why I dont rate wizards that high. Or rangers. Even without those spells you dont...

Good LORD I would love more actual player-facing content.