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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...

We can look to historical examples, e.g. the industrial revolution. Early I.R. the cloth industry made a lot of use of individual...

My PF1 group usually plays like that. Declare what they wanna do and what skill they wanna use. Not my personal preference, but that...

No, the difference is whether or not the mechanic represents something that is real in the setting. I've said it how many times?

well, congratulations either way, they could have picked from hundreds of similar products (category wise) and chose this one. Chance of...

Oh no, no you don't. You don't get to say it's diegetic enough here but not in the case of metacurrency where the only difference is...

As a forever GM with a ton of mini's and Dwarven Forge terrain, your product was an insta-purchase for me. Such excellent products...

The heist genre is a pretty narrow slice of "all media" though, you have to admit.

Return to An-Nayyir’s Pyramid – Part 2 We return to the understructures beneath An-Nayyir’s pyramid today. Today’s map is of the deeper...

I say, the ability to illegally circumvent a principle doesn’t mean the principle isn’t valid and worthy. Countries could be empowered...

Maybe a dedicated future speculation thread is in order. It's pretty clear that we're headed in an incredibly bad direction. Once the...