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Math, history, and design of old-school D&D

2014-09-29

Special Herbs

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The Original D&D equipment list includes, near the end of the list, three special herbs: However, there is no description given to ...
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2014-09-22

Book of Spells – Call for Errata

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If you couldn't guess from this summer's series of "Spells Through the Ages" posts, I've been looking carefully at the...
2014-09-18

On Burning Oil, Part 3

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If you've been reading the blog for a while, you know of one of my pet peeves in D&D; burning lamp oil as a weapon. To recap, my sta...
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2014-09-15

Spells Through The Ages – Walls of Ice and Fire

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The 4th-level wizard spells wall of fire and wall of ice first appear on the same page of Original D&D, Vol-1 (p. 26). At first blus...
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2014-09-08

Spells Through The Ages – Fear

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Fear has almost always been a 4th-level wizard spell in D&D. Primarily the weird thing about it has been how much the range/area of ...
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2014-09-04

Growing Animals

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Original D&D Vagaries; Advanced D&D Statistics; Proposal for Simplified Spellcasting  In the prior post I was looking at the 5th...
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2014-09-01

Spells Through The Ages – Animal Growth

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This week we're looking at the 5th-level D&D wizard spell, animal growth . No need for artificial growth hormone with this bit of ...
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College lecturer in mathematics and computer science, ex-computer game programmer, D&D streamer.
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