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

2021-11-29

The Effect of Sweep Attacks

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For quite some time, it's been left as ambiguous in my OED House Rules whether or not fighters get "sweep" attacks -- the hyp...
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2021-11-22

Cursed Magic Items Through the Ages

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A week back on the Wandering DMs YouTube channel we had a nifty conversation on the status of Cursed Magic Items in D&D. Largely we cam...
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2021-11-15

Demographics Quick Rule-of-Thumb

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I was thinking again about medieval demographics the other day. This follows on an earlier summary article I wrote here .  Thing is, I was ...
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2021-11-08

Mohs Scale to Marvel

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Regular readers of this blog may know how much I adore finding some real-world measurement scale that can be easily used as the core of a ga...
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2021-11-01

The Landlord/Monopoly Game

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On Twitter last week, Ethan Mollick, Professor of Management at the Wharton Business School, gave us a great reminder that the game of Monop...
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2021-10-25

Early Evolution of Encounter Text

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A number of times in recent episodes of the Wandering DMs D&D Sunday talk show we've wound up debating how much detail is best for ...
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2021-10-04

Random Wizard's Online Arena

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You may be aware that a while back I developed a set of tools called Arena/Athena to investigate things in OD&D like implied combat eff...
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