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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...

when i was in high school, i used classmates names with a few added letters..it got me in a bit of trouble

Are you kidding? The "community" can't agree on a gosh-darned thing. There would be zero things the "community" could assist with that...

What precisely are you talking about? I've made quite clearly opinion marked points about the design impacts of various choices, and...

Many games give resources on a schedule and then require the GM to frame situations that put pressure on your resources within that...

New crafting/painting space + work bench set up. I really shouldn't have bothered because in a couple of weeks the "walls" (really...

I voted "sometimes." It depends on the campaign and the players. For players who are new to the game, I like starting at level 1 because...

Coming up with names is literally the hardest part of GMing for me. I'll conjure whole adventures out of the ether while we're sitting...

Then there are the fantasy name generators for people, places, etc. Those have been a thing on the web for decades. Lots of websites...

Yeah, there is not enough magic in D&D, so let's put more magic in. So when do we get Martials Unleashed?

What I was trying to say was that before Facebook or Twitter even existed we had major privacy issues with banks, stuff we've had since...

Coming up with names is literally the hardest part of GMing for me. I'll conjure whole adventures out of the ether while we're sitting...