Roleplaying games exist as an oral tradition. While many roleplaying books are in print, most of these provide new rules and systems for ...

When Magic: The Gathering was released in August of 1993, it was the first of its kind. A game where you collect cards ...

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

If there’s one element that strongly separated tabletop roleplaying games from the miniatures wargames out of which they grew, it’s the former’s focus ...

Videogames are everywhere; they have reached the mainstream. Once a fringe activity, thanks to the Wii, World of Warcraft and Modern Warfare 2, ...

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

The Dead Gods are not the only gods worshiped in Dungeon World. The residents of the World worship a wide pantheon of deities, ...

There is a schism in the role-playing world. It is only now represented in the forum battles and blog wars between old-school Dungeons ...

For longtime tabletop roleplaying game (RPG) fans, a February 16, 2010 Boston Herald article by Laurel J. Sweet, “Suspect in slays fan of ...

My last article began to explain the art of game mastering to aspiring GMs (gamemasters). My premise in doing so is that the ...

So you’ve decided to jump into the crazy world of tabletop role-playing games. You’ve chosen the game that you want to play, be ...

Whether you’ve played a tabletop role-playing game or not, you probably are familiar with the concept of the Dungeonmaster (DM) or Gamemaster (GM). ...