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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...

Holds true to my lived experience.

I asked Chris via the Mastering Dungeons discord about international play: There was a test in Burbank a couple weeks ago where they...

Sure, but realistically this was intended for Dark Sun.

Psion will 100% be Dark Sun first. Hell, I think the fact that Dark Sun is something they want to do is the only reason Psion is coming...

Well, I stated clearly what I meant, I can't really worry about that sort of misreading.

But guessing the most extreme is doing the product a disservice. I know you don’t mean to, but someone on here is going to see that...

It is, and it is not the only playtest ING WotC does. They do vigorous private playtest ING for actual balance, UA us just about...

I prefer that we be a magocracy of internet wizards.

This is absolutely true. Yep, that's one possible example: let the players provide the basic elements that the GM then uses to construct...

After thinking about it more, I realized my earlier description (d20 shift) was still imprecise. It’s not really that “the curve simply...

Well, I think that actualizing a premise is a bit different than a GM providing an outline or trails. The premise could easily be the...