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

2019-03-30

Presumed Axiom for AD&D

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A poster on the Facebook AD&D shared this comment from Frank Mentzer earlier in the week, in which he recalled a rules discussion with G...
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2019-03-25

Infravision Instances

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I've spent a silly amount of time recently thinking about infravision. In particular: Should it be nullified when nearby to a torch or...
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2019-03-23

Stats Saturday: Hydras

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Generally we've found in our analyses of Equivalent Hit Dice (EHD) power-ratings for OD&D monsters that the danger level is linear i...
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2019-03-18

More from Three Hearts and Three Lions

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I recently re-read Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions . This is, of course, a critical piece of literature for D&D scholar...
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2019-03-11

Magic Distribution in OD&D Dungeons

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An observation: Boy, magic is really rare if using the dungeon treasure table in OD&D Vol-3 ("The Underworld & Wilderness Adven...
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2019-03-04

More Missile Modeling

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I've written so many letters on the physics and statistics of missiles, archery, and ballistics that it could sink a warship (search t...
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2019-02-28

TotalCon 2019 Shots

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Last weekend I attended TotalCon in Marlborough, MA for the first time and it was pretty nifty! Didn't run anything (this time), but pla...
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College lecturer in mathematics and computer science, ex-computer game programmer, D&D streamer.
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