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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...

As I said, everything seems pushed back. June release is about two months later than normal. Years traditionally have four seasons, like...

It's funny you should say that because I find that a lot of old school adventures are way better about this that some other games. Here...

I can do without this kind of overhead these days, and agree that how 5/5.5 has gone is really not it.

What else would you call it, if the game doesn't have any resources that can be consumed? The gameplay is more than likely going to...

Having a Background component might be a good addition to mitigate at least some of that. Old D&D didn't seem to really give thought to...

Even in Dragonbane, if there is no time pressure and no consequence of failure, there is no reason to call for a roll. So include a...

I often end up staying up far too late fiddling with design after all my other stuffs are taken care of. I feel you.

Book 5 is even more "a lot". It's my favorite of the 7 I've read.

I often end up staying up far too late fiddling with design after all my other stuffs are taken care of. I feel you.

Give each primary spellcaster a nearly unique spell list, with no more than 10% of their spells potentially accessible by other classes...

I've got some stuff going into affinity now, and I really dont want to work today, would love to just tinker with this.