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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...

Oh, no doubt they can get there eventually but when it specifically comes to fragile crops, for example, there tends to be far too much...

I don't believe those things are mutually exclusive. You can certainly designs systems where the players have to come up with clever...

We are nearing the end now. The party is returning from the faewild with boons and new levels, and they STILL won't tell me what they...

Why should they cost anything? Its a standard adventuring thingy. The main reason why I would use this is NOT to need to track tedious...

AL has a whole scene that they probably don't want to disrupt, and is pretty independent. The Encounters seem to be about drumming up...

You can also do it backwards. Something like Trespasser's exploration loop that's all about picking where and when to spend resources...

I think this really depends on the type of players you have at your table. I have some players who're very active and will pursue leads...

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In my experience, that's usually how it works. People get the idea that railroads are terrible, sandboxes are great, so they decide to...

The trick with player-driven gaming is to make sure the PCs each have several really solid, specific, and actionable goals baked in...

I mean, a super easy example is 3 branching paths that converge to a place you want to go. Say, a weather-beaten cliff mid storm, maybe...