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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...

These are both good explanations, but one thing i think should be made clear is that ANYTHING can be a clock -- it is a way of...

Check the blurb on the page for the Heroes book. It’s a good quick summary.

Wow, cool. I didn’t know about this. I lent my 2014 DMG a while back so can’t check, but good to know! EDIT: BTW, since this 2014 boon...

It's a tool to track things happening in the world, usually without player interference. In Monster of the Week, for instance, the...

My gaming group is REALLY used to Tombstone pizza. So much so, that when I got Lou Malnati's (some of the best pizza in Chicago, IMO)...

Swordsman: On a martial chassis, probably fighter-type. Assuming 5e for Proficiency Bonus to allow scaling. At the beginning of each...

Melf the Elf was the model for one of my first characters- Orf the Dwarf. I hope for obvious reasons.

While the OSR community may look to Luke, Luke himself plays modern D&D regularly at conventions.

Going back to earlier discussion in the thread arund players doing "homework" between sessions: IME that's a big ask if it's an...

Of course not Google, but on ChatGPT? :devilish:

Yeah, it has me pretty worried, honestly. Tom Holland is extremely charismatic, the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man concept is...