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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...

Also proven, through studies, to help with enduring pain.

If you have enough of that in your life already...then maybe the show is trying to be realistic? People swear! A lot! I swear all the...

When I left the Army and moved to the National Guard for the last couple years of my service, I found things to be a total culture...

More like, "I hate skill systems, and when they are tied to XP I can't even ignore them."

For 1, they are choosing whether to prioritize timely progress vs. finding everything in every nook and cranny. The decision is not...

I think there is a lot of inertia in adventure design -- especially for games that go for that "old school" feel. I love nothing more...

The B5 world was more interesting then the Firefly world. But overall I agree with your 'lightning in a bottle' statement. The thing is...

Ha! Yeah, that's the sort of thing I see happening. The last end-of-session point I mentioned, the one about "giving in to your...

This is the big problem, in my mind. Firefly was a moment in time, lightning in a bottle. There wasn't something ridiculously engaging...

I think your approach to the lock picking would have worked for both of your Awareness issues, too. They could rush through the section...

This was addressed in comic form in, "The Shepherd's Tale", published by Dark Horse.