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

2017-05-29

Slings and Arrows and Outrageous Formulae

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The word "sling" appears nowhere in the entirety of Chainmail or any of the core books of Original D&D. (Well, one exception:...
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2017-05-22

Guest Post: Medieval Magic

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I think this is the first-ever guest post on this blog. In an online discussion a few weeks back, Landon Schurtz made what I thought was a f...
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2017-05-20

How to Include Justifications in a Rules Document?

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As a final thought to the wilderness rules ideas the last two weeks: You'll notice that each of the separate sections had an appendix of...
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2017-05-18

OED Wilderness Rules Draft: Weather Events

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The fourth and final part of a draft of modified wilderness adventuring rules for OED-style games. Something like this was playtested at Hel...
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2017-05-15

OED Wilderness Rules Draft: Clothing and Temperature

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The fourth and final part of a draft to wilderness rules for OED (add-on house rules for OD&D). In this part we connect levels of clothi...
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2017-05-11

OED Wilderness Rules Draft: Carrying Capacity

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More suggested refinements to OD&D wilderness adventuring mechanics. Notice how in this installment we use modern research to establish ...
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2017-05-08

OED Wilderness Rules Draft: Food and Water

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In the last year, I've spent some tweaking wilderness adventuring rules to make myself happy. Although OD&D's rules were based p...
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