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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...

Have you given it a play yet? How’d it go?

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

No one has suggested a binary, or throwing anything out. Certainly no one is pretending anything. OP complained about a problem they...

Believe it or not, we’ve been through that phase. Over the last 26 years we’ve tried a LOT of things!

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

Id never heard of it till now it it looks awesome.

Makes sense to me: you need calories to push the weight. Incidentally (and to the surprise of no one, I'm sure), my diet has been a...

That was the biggest difference between calorie surplus and deficit. In a deficit I just couldn't push the same. Everything else kind of...

That is your right, of course. It’s about the right tools for the job. If you have a lesser power which can take out orcs but not...

Another thing I've done is have everybody roll and whoever gets the best roll is the one who notices the thing. I don't find it fully...

It's not True Capitalism unless you charge for every bell and whistle! Where's my charge for a custom avatar? Where's my charge for a...