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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...

I will just point out again, that in the 5e era WotC have never published an adventure that required anything that was not in the core...

Yes, narrative fiction summarizing what happened. The die hard players absolutely do read them and comment on them, so I know some of...

I was trying to point out that this is a weakness of 5e's design that was intentionally put there, and which could have been designed in...

Assumimg for the sake of giving the crunch the absolute highest page count. The 100 pages give or take assumes it has as many...

Yes, there was some power-creep, and yes simply adding more options necessarily increased the ability to optimize (which led to more...

I think the truenamer gets a too bad name. It was clearly just designed with optimization in mind. (It is not that hard to get more than...

Yeah I feel that one makes the most sense. Though I'd also be tempted to let the player roll for their new age (as a proportion of...

Some solid points! I'd even go so far as ask them to just leave the old settings to the people who already have the books. Those people...

If I was actually doing a new edition my first preference would be to completely get rid of non-casters. Every class should have spells...

i feel like it would work on relative place in lifespan, that 250 year elf is about a third through their 750 year lifespan so would...

I mean, they aren't meaningful in the scope of the adventure, and in being an actual determiner of a real "success-failure" fork in the...