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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...

Or a sequence of self-contained scenes that exist in isolation and can be engaged at a leisurely pace where the party is always at peak...

Outside of discrete subsystems like combat I often like to add success with complications into otherwise traditional games. In our...

Two British TV series come to mind that would serve as good inspiration: Hustle: a crime drama about a group of con artists, that...

Sorry, I was just amused by the thought that Pedro Pascal was a relative unknown, when he's practically legendary for being in everything :)

Oh it absolutely did.

Short one, all I can say was I was honest.

"Do you trust us" definitely suggests that, for all that people online poo-poo the OGL crisis, WotC thinks it's had an impact.

Wizards has a new customer survey up at D&D Beyond. It seems wizards is trying to be a better steward of D&D with bit of different...

I'm inordinately fond of the anti-joke. The troll joke. The 'we could have made a joke here, but instead were not and pointing it out'...

There was a time in 3.0 where you could come back as a Dryad. I saw this happen once to a Barbarian. The DM had "her" (no male Dryads...

What I'm getting from this thread is confirmation that a lot of gamers are flakey.