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TSR Inc. published Dragon #103 in November 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features errata...

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...

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 have a theory that you can learn a lot about a fantasy TTRPG’s design philosophy by looking at its magic items. Further, you can...

Staff of withering AD&D would also trigger a system shock roll due to aging. Fail that instant death. No save. Ran a 1E adventure...

.... And do you think this example undermines the argument? Because, sure, if in D&D the d20 was replaced by a d4 I also think the...

Not really theres 3 things you can do. You solution isn't the one true path. 1. Give every class like dailies like you suggest. 2...

Yup, I think the conversation about meta is far more useful to determine what games one would play in that it is as a definitional tool...

Sorry, but that is false and frankly rude.

I dont think anyone thinks Wizards will go under without the grey haired among us. I DO however think that Wizards has some marketing...

I don't see that as indicating being ruled by one's whims and emotions. This says what they do do, or at least are willing to do without...

True "Combat as Sport" intentionally designed games are generally extremely anti-GM putting thumb on scale. If the GM is tweaking the...

Oh yes, the "cloned dire wolf".

Yeah, it's a major plot point in Star Wars: The Bad Batch. But this is just more evidence for something that has been suspected to be...