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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...

There are a number of rules and decisions in 5.5e that as written leave me underwhelmed by the ability of said "professionals." The...

I am going to wait for EN Publishing's Steel and Skill: The Complete Fighter's Field Guide. Atm, it reminds me of the 2e Complete books.

I am not sure these things are connected. I have seen and read about west marches/hex crawl campaigns where the GM created the world...

Major update to the first page of the sheet.

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...

Yep. There's a reason Designed by Committee exists as a negative term.

Care to stream your prep and game to show us how it's done??

What if I make it happen?!? In other news a bottle of Nyquil just hit me for $20...wtf.

I disagree. The D&D audience is deeply fractured and most have a Dunning-Krueger like view of their own abilities. Outsourcing ANY...

I have moved a lot, and I have played in a lot of different groups. Most of those groups cannot do player driven campaigns. And these...