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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...

San Cian and Godsbreath were my favorite

I don't work for WotC. I do not care about their profit margin. That said, if WotC is to be believed, there has been a massive increase...

I maintain that while the 5e magic items are streamlined, they ended up fairly lame as a result. Can’t have any lingering impact on the...

A cake mimicking a mimic mimicking cake. That's getting pretty meta!

So, June 26th was my birthday, and my absolutely amazingly talented and wonderful wife baked me a homemade cake! I went to cut a slice...

I can't speak for OD&D, but my years of playing 1E - 3E was more striving towards Simulation than D&D just being a game. 3E was the...

I think you could probably do both Gamma World and Urban Arcana as standalone setting books that contain everything necessary to run...

Gahh. I hate knowledge checks. Not I guess in principle, but almost always in execution. I think my plan going forward is to grant...

unpacking, analyzing, probing, considering.... EDIT: Or, to paraphrase Billy Collins, tie it to a chair and beat it with a hose.

I don't really like hours as an in-game measurement tool. Once you get to things that take that long you're abstracting an awful lot of...

Hey, this has been a really fruitful discussion for me. Once again, the pushback and questioning helps me think about (dare I say...

If everyone follows this advice, this forum is about to get a lot quieter.

This is the kind of play I find most confusing. I personally don't like gambling (narratively or otherwise), but I grasp the general...