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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...

I don't disagree, but I think the degree to which that conversation shapes the fiction compared to the systems shaping the fiction...

To be fair, that's often been how a lot of analysis was here. For example, there was a guy here who argued that games with...

So on Saturday, at 10am eastern time, Dan Ayoub and Justice Arman are doing a “D&D Past and Future Panel” at Gary Con. Wondering is...

I think this really needs to be said.

Magic items are a great way to help martials with the exploration and social pillars. It's true that anyone can use utility items, but...

Yeah, Malifaux has some awesome figures, but they are guilty of some truly heinous attachment points.

Dice pool tells you nothing. Dice pools work differently in different game. Burning Wheel is a dice pool game and works entirely...

I was going to mention the game of Ironsworn my group has been playing. It’s a GMless game, so I’m not sure how people would view that…...

Yeah, I think that the “solution” to the problem, such as it is, can come from a variety of places. I think for many traditional games...

I remember the Dead Sea Scrolls being big news in the 1990s when they were using new imagery techology to examin them. The thing about...

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