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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 always took it as not entertaining foolish behavior and ideas. "count me out" not "you're an idiot" but maybe the latter is the...

Like many quotes about behavior and wisdom, its both. Taken to an extreme it treats people poorly with a broad condescending brush...

Scribing scrolls were mostly downtime activity for wizards (1 scroll - 1day). And while yes, most items were found or purchased, wizards...

…And how do these workers pay rent, buy groceries, etc?

I don't really like the duck, I actually am not a big fan of most anthropomorphic races and huge zoos of races. But in Dragonbane it's...

I agree and I don't. Statistically there would be "slow" times, they can't save the world every day (?) But I agree that the DM can...

A LOT of modern games do this, and the good ones usually update their price lists periodically to reflect inflation. Savage Worlds comes...

I agree, but down time is like wandering monsters. It only takes one or two to make the group wary enough to try and avoid situations...

There is a phrasing that comes up from time to time, "does not suffer fools gladly," that I used to think meant someone was awesomely...

My first real publication was a game called Vac Suits and Duct Tape, a sci-fi horror/exploration game written for the Trophy Gold rules...

It's pretty much central to the plot. The antagonists want to control Paul using a clone of his childhood friend as bait.