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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...

Both. Newer books added options, that when mixed with the strongest options in core, produced an even stronger combination. But the...

And the DM has the time and inclination to adjust everything to account for the escalation. I think there's a reason that very few...

I quite like character resources, but i like unified, easy, streamlined mechanics. For instance, in WW nWoD, every game line uses...

Indeed. It would appear very different life experiences have led to very different conclusions about how to GM to not ruin things for...

Sorcerer needs a niche, and being the "innate" caster gives it a reason to be the simple design.

Well, the book is set to be about 192 pages...with ~100 pages of crunch if we assume it had the most Spells, the most Magic Items, the...

A thing of beauty. I think describing one's epic level campaign ought be required to be done in a single run-on sentence.

i am currently running a 3,5e epic campaign and playing in 2 more epic campaigns as a player, the scope of all three campaigns is so...

Ryoko's Guide to the Yokai Realms has a Bender class (or at least a 5e interpretation of the Benders from Avatar: The Last Airbender and...

It's a really fun spell to use as a PC on NPCs, especially when you have NPCs that you're not really hostile against but things escalate...

Hellchain Weaver CR 13 XP 25,600 LE Gargantuan magical beast (extraplanar) Init +8; Senses darkvision 60 ft., see in darkness...