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

2019-08-26

Who Will Speak?

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It's never entirely spelled out in classic D&D exactly which creatures have their own racial language. OD&D says (Vol-1, p. 12),...
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2019-08-18

On Starting as Heroes

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Playing devil's advocate a bit: here's a short argument for starting PCs in your standard campaign at around 3rd or 4th level. Gyg...
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2019-08-12

Sunday Survey: Best Module Poll

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Not a poll by me, but a gentleman named Jon Payton on the Facebook 1E AD&D group. And not just a single poll: Jon ran a whole series of ...
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2019-08-05

On a Theory of Elements, Energies, and Embellishments for D&D

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Dragons in OD&D (and AD&D) each come with a characteristic color and breath weapon (energy) type. In addition, there's a table t...
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2019-08-04

Sunday Survey: Wizard Spell Failure

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Related to last week's survey on permitted armor, I asked another poll on the Facebook 1E AD&D group as follows: This is even m...
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2019-07-29

Wilderness Encounter Levels

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We've spent some time on this blog in the past measuring the risk/reward level of the OD&D dungeon wandering monster tables (conclus...
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2019-07-28

Sunday Survey: Wizard Armor

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A while back on the Facebook 1E AD&D group, a discussion occurred that had me quite surprised by the direction it was going. Intrigued, ...
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