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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...

opposed rolls in combat, other dice than d20 used for combt rolls, second counting up in battle, from the top of my head. But anyone's...

Ideally I'd like 6e to be grittier, less magic, and a lower power level. It's easy to 'add' power through additional rules and...

I disagree. The D&D audience is deeply fractured and most have a Dunning-Krueger like view of their own abilities. Outsourcing ANY...

Well, those bastion protections didn't stop me in my current campaign. Still, I can see your point. That doesn't mean it's "DM Hostile"...

As far as the commonly understood meaning, and directly relatable to the OP and link? Yes they do, and traditional forums are not it.

No, they removed themselves from participatory social media about D&D Plus their bosses closed the forums, made unkept promises, started...

I don't personally particularly care one way or the other about that, but I wrote it in to make up for you missing it.

well, guess if you make a caster a class, you should balance it with a non caster, what a shock. maybe add battlemaster features to all...

D&D is notoriously hard to playtest for. A video game can offer a slice of concept as a beta to let the devs get feedback on what they...

A whistleblower talks about how profits, politicians, and "engagement" are prioritized over safety in social media...

Some other time. I thought I was saying something fairly innocuous and trivial; since it seems to not be the case, I don't want to...