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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...

Feels like this is fundamentally about skill design, not adventure design. You want the skills to point to abilities players want to use...

First off your rolling to often as most people who don’t play skill bases systems do. Per page 31 of the core rule book in the call out...

If there are readily available solutions that obviate the problem, then no, I don't understand throwing out the baby with the bathwater...

I also thought that "I don't understand, but I also do understand and disagree" to be an interesting position to take. Very....Taoist.

They could have put a lot more flavour into it if they wanted it to only be for Dark Sun. Consider a Stephen King/Stranger Things domain...

Holds true to my lived experience.

Like many quotes about behavior and wisdom, its both. Taken to an extreme it treats people poorly with a broad condescending brush...

There is a phrasing that comes up from time to time, "does not suffer fools gladly," that I used to think meant someone was awesomely...

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...