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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...

That's actually pretty reasonable. Only the problem is that it's just like introducing Wild Elves and Grey Elves and Drow Elves as PC...

Gestalt classing is just inherently more powerful than single classing, especially in a system where the XP needed to level is...

Which probably means we will get not only the Q4 book, but most of the 2027 lineup as well.

Spelljammer seems pretty ideal for adaptations to other formats. Treasure Planet did just OK for Disney, but a Spelljammer cartoon...

Ya, it was a decent guideline. Obviously pretty easy to break even for mundane items if taken that every possible things is...

These problems go away when you give up the pass/fail mentality. A failed lockpicking contest doesn't mean the characters can't get...

I took a group of 5E players and had them play AD&D. All but one liked it. One guy said he felt like what he did actually mattered...

Well, it doesn't help when WotC tapped into people like Satine Phoenix to be a spokeswoman...

There's a new WotC pres, a new head of D&D, a new head of D&D the game, a new head of D&D franchise, a new lead designer and a new D&D...

Indeed, that is what I'm doing.

Without knowing any details about the products you are in no position to make any such judgement.