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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...

It makes a neat duo with John Varley’s novella “Press Enter”. There’s an entering subgenre of stories about the Singularity coming early...

For me, one of the appeals of T&T was how relatively unchanged it was since the beginning. Considering Ken St. Andre's lack of...

Does anyone else think the guy on the cover looks like Prime Evil?

The point of starting with the bare minimum and then layering rules on top isn't to remove things we consider valuble. It's to find out...

My younger sister finally got herself a gaming computer, and randomly a month or so ago, she gifted me "Peak". It's a co-op physics game...

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...

The point of starting with the bare minimum and then layering rules on top isn't to remove things we consider valuble. It's to find out...

Did anyone else only get 5 or 6 questions? Very short survey. Completely assumes we're all playing the current edition, too. I...

I prefer Way over Warrior. So, Way of the Dancing Monk? ;)

See, it's hot takes like this one why I put zero faith in the D&D Community for playtesting anything. Even a rudimentary reading of the...

D&D, as part of it's DIY spirit, is full of amateurs thinking they understand the game better than the professionals. I've been looking...