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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...

No, the book makes it very clear and specific that DM is ONLY allowed to interact with Bastions: a) when a player has not visited it or...

Unearthed Arcana had a lot of great ideas, and with most of the book being Open Game Content, had so many opportunities to alter the...

I'm reminded of just how many sidebars the 3.0 PHB had with alternate rules and ideas for doing things differently. I really liked...

I would say that people are flakey when there aren't consequences for being flakey.

I think it's pretty obvious that those artists and game developers don't understand what role they play in the creation of these games...

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...

When I run Cyberpunk 2020, and it's been more than 10 years at this point, I run it in the year 2020 as it was imagined way back in the...

That is an interpersonal issue, not a rules issue.

Ok, cool. They are not, though. DM can interact with them just fine. "Oh, dude, something happened in your bastion, BTW." Just like...

Hrrm. Going off of discussions of heroics on other site, that seems like a good way to structure a game. After all, angering the gods...

All adventurers start with one for free and it refills as part of the PCs paying living expenses via an occasional tax between adventures