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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...

Its the same reason D&D 4e started their level 1 as the same power level as 3.5 level 3, and why D&D 5.5 has now level 3 as starting...

How powers work is probably one of the most distinguishing features of systems that include them, and because of this I have a fairly...

I keep thinking half-caster is overly restrictive on the Artificer, so an Artificer that unifies spellcasting with Replicate Magic Item...

First off your rolling to often as most people who don’t play skill bases systems do. Per page 31 of the core rule book in the call out...

Another question near and dear to my developer heart. I think Cypher does a neat thing here by making it a loot-crate game. Where...

I keep thinking half-caster is overly restrictive on the Artificer, so an Artificer that unifies spellcasting with Replicate Magic Item...

Before AI was a commercial product, maybe in the early-mid 2010s, I read a rash of articles about how Americans don't store information...

Preferences aside, whether or not managing finite resources "matters" is a pretty fundamental distinction between different kinds of...

And If they turn out like the banneret, I'd rather they spend more time to cook.

Per the GAMA website in this, the winner is chosen by a panel of industry professionals and experts, so probably a lot of inside...

I'm a big fan of dice pools/bell curves for a number of reasons, but the idea that it's inherently less swingy than linear distributions...