Delta's D&D Hotspot

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

2023-02-27

Radius or Diameter?

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I've been working on refining spell descriptions (again) lately -- for hopefully upcoming expanded releases of the OED Book of Spells a...
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2023-02-21

Dragon's Lair

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I've gotten a chance to play the Dragon's Lair arcade game on my PC (finally in the last week or so). I can't emphasize how grou...
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2023-01-23

Advancement in Classic D&D

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We frequently marvel at how sketchy the advice was in Original D&D (and other early editions) was for the number of monsters, amount of ...
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2022-10-17

The Science of Slime-Splitting

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Recently on Wandering DMs we had a neat conversation about slime-type monsters in classic D&D. Now, in Original D&D, a couple of th...
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2022-10-10

Because-Dragons Is a Bad Argument

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Is this a hot take? In the D&D discourse, you'll see a common piece of rhetoric, and it goes like this. DM Alice says, "I don...
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2022-10-03

On d6 Ability Checks

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One of our Wandering DMs Patrons on our Discord server made a great observation: In AD&D Module WG4, The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun ...
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2022-09-26

Compleat Character Creation Catalog: Unearthed Arcana

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This is Part 3 of our exploration of different ability-generation methods in O/AD&D, and the chances for creating characters of differen...
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College lecturer in mathematics and computer science, ex-computer game programmer, D&D streamer.
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