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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...

This week, all fantasy all the time plus fantasy Cthulhu. Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Edition gets new rules, a massive adventure and...

Nostalgia doesn't draw me to the OSR, because I didn't like D&D back in the day. What is drawing me in is the imaginative ideas and...

D&D Beyond is for D&D. They are not D&D, nor are they powered by D&D. A 'Beyond' for those games would require them to code an entirely...

Predatory algorithms implemented to confuse, enrage, divide, and socially engineer western society?

All I can say is D&D is moving in a direction I do not care to follow once again. They lost me during 4E and are again losing me with...

It matters if they don't care to court a particular age group, demographic, whatever.

And also the entire system is covered in Roadside Picnic-esque nonsense

Dragonbane Trudvang by Free League passed the $1 million mark.

Another critics of AI are evil whaaaa 😭😭 post. Yippee. See how easy it is to just mock people who disagree with you? We expect better...

I told them everything they didn't want to hear. I doubt they'll care. Which is fine, because I don't either.

Yeah, I followed a similar approach. I used the core 3.0 books* + select UA material + select material from other specific 3.0 and 3.5...