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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...

Esmail Khatib, Iran’s intelligence minister, was killed in a strike overnight in Tehran.

It's fast and intuitive (especially when you know D&D) but not much that stands out, except the "Race the Stakes" die and...

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Ali Larijani, Iran's security chief, and Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani were both killed in an Israeli strike on Tuesday.

If you're going to flatly reject the premise, I can't engage. My point is that if you treat setting truths as encoded in the rules...

Here's their criteria and nomination / selection process: https://www.originsawards.net/origins-award-submissions As a Finalist, I had...

Exactly. I don't want to think in terms of story when I play my PC. They're in the world, and all they know (and all I can fairly act on...

From a former Origins Award winner, let me wish all the current contestants the best of luck!

I agree with your point broadly, but I think we would call exactly the opposite things in that situation "meta-gaming." XD Knowing the...

I was going to make a joke that Harper could have just called it Rakes in the Dark, but light sources seem to have little to no...