If you remember from my rundown of the best 5 games from E3, I was very excited to play Magic: The Gathering Tactics. ...

Games have changed a lot over the years, and fiction about games has changed with them. Going all the way back to H. ...

Last column, in “Tops and Bottoms,” we discussed setting creation using the technique of top down – zoom in. Following those guidelines should ...

Archenemy is a new way to play Magic The Gathering with your friends. Instead of the one-on-one duels that were the hallmark of ...

Having previously explored how the GM can best tackle the roles of judge, storyteller, and adversary, in my last column I introduced the ...

For the last two years, I’ve had the pleasure of attending Gen Con in Indianapolis. It is quite possibly the largest concentration of ...

World building is my favorite part of gamemastering, but (despite the countless hours I devote to it), world building cannot be counted as ...

In the last installment we explored the “living gods” of Dungeon World, and although we touched on the importance of their followers, we ...

Cliches abound in fantasy literature. Elves are long-lived and lithe; dwarves are stocky and bad-tempered. Humans are usually prone to corruption, but there ...

I’ve been playing a lot of Magic: The Gathering recently. For the uninitiated, Magic is a collectible card game released by Wizards of ...

This is the fifth in my ongoing series of columns devoted to the art of gamemastering. In my first column, I laid out ...

If you stumble into the fantasy and science-fiction section of any well-stocked bookstore these days, you’ll notice right away that there’s a section ...