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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...

Nope, sorry. Other games, like Monster of the Week (just as one example) handle party splitting just fine. Nothing changes and the...

That a monster turns up is "diegetic". That the GM rolls every <insert period here> to see if a monster turns up doesn't seem very...

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I don't think this is absolutely true. CoC characters don't know they exist in a world where it'd be extremely unwise for them to...

Something something rules can't prevent a bad player/DM....

You know, I heard the same damn thing about Mother May I DMs who use deities/patrons to micromanage players for daring to play in ways...

And I would argue that the ruleset has nothing to do with preventing bad players from derailing a game. That sort of behavior and...

EDIT: never mind - I was mistaken regarding the topic of discussion. I have no comment on the actual topic!

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...

Wednesday 3/18: Had to get over a motivation hump, but made it in. Smith inclined barbell bench 102.5x14, 102.5x12, 102.5x9 +97.5x3...

Arms/Shoulders. Decent, but too busy. Also I weighed in this morning at 173.6 meaning I've not really put on anything or lost anything...