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

2016-01-29

OD&D is Back at D&D Classics

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Great news! The Original D&D little brown books (LBBs) are once again officially available in PDF form on RPGNow's D&D Classi...
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2016-01-25

Silver Weapons

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Silver weapons are a pretty good staple of myth and fantasy. Silver bullets disposing of witches and werewolves date to at least the 1700...
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2016-01-18

XP: The Big Switch, Pt. 3

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One final observation on the difference between the monster XP award system between Original Vol-1 (linear in HD) and Revised Sup-I (parabol...
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2016-01-11

XP: The Big Switch, Pt. 2

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In the last blog we looked at the two different systems for awarding XP for defeated monsters in D&D: (1) in the the original white box ...
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2016-01-04

XP: The Big Switch, Pt. 1

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Experience awards from monsters saw a big switch between Original D&D (Vol-1) and the first Supplement (Sup-I, Greyhawk ). In short, ori...
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2015-12-21

More Sprechenhaltestelle

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In the last post, many of us were scratching our collective heads over the very cryptic identifiers, roles, and connections of the many NPC...
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2015-12-14

Top Secret and Sprechenhaltestelle

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Back in the day, TSR's espionage game Top Secret was, I think the second RPG I ever got after D&D. Mostly this was just due to i...
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