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

2023-10-09

Fearful Ends Now on Kickstarter

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The long-time passion project of my Wandering DMs partner Paul Siegel is currently funding on Kickstarter! Fearful Ends is a rules-light, ...
2023-09-18

40 Years of the D&D Cartoon

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The D&D cartoon first appeared on CBS 40 years ago this week! Man, 1983-1984 were really great years for our hobby. Here's a link to...
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2023-07-31

How Much Weight Can a Horse Carry in D&D?

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I've vaguely known for a long time that there was some essential problem with the system for horse encumbrance in early D&D (O/AD...
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2023-07-17

Solving Chainmail Jousting

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Last year I wrote an academic paper formally solving Gary Gygax's Jousting game, as it appears in the original edition of Chainmail: Rul...
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2023-06-12

Health & Damage in Swords & Spells

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I'm constantly fascinated by the novel rules detail in OD&D Swords & Spells. There's a bunch of stuff in there that can be i...
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2023-05-15

Can Superheroes See Invisible?

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Consider the O/AD&D Superhero -- a.k.a, the 8th-level Fighter. If you blink you'll miss it, but in multiple places in early texts it...
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2023-05-08

Consider Chaos

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I had an experience the other day where, trying to resolve an issue, office A told me it's the job of office B, office B said to talk to...
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College lecturer in mathematics and computer science, ex-computer game programmer, D&D streamer.
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