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As all of you who care little for my current project are no doubt aware, I’ve been spending a lot of my time on Advanced Fantasy Dungeons. It’s a project perfect for me right...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeon series, there’s an index here. After looking at vision, journeying and dungeoneering, I’m coming back to...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the advanced fantasy dungeon series, there’s an index here. There’s a significant overlap between what we developed in timekeeping and...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the advanced fantasy dungeon series, there’s an index here. There’s a significant overlap between what we developed in timekeeping and...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeon series, there’s an index here. I’m going back over some complex subsystems and reconsidering them in light of...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the advanced fantasy dungeon series, there’s an index here. I’m the light of reimagining HP as a source of inner strength, I’m considering...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the advanced fantasy dungeon series, there’s an index here. There is almost nothing talking about the “Social” pillar of play in second...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeon series, there’s an index here. The core text attempts to make combat chaotic, dynamic, vivid and simple. How...Linked by the ring
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the advanced fantasy dungeon series, there’s an index here. The core text attempts to make combat chaotic, dynamic, vivid and simple. This...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the advanced fantasy dungeon series, there’s an index here. The core text attempts to make combat chaotic, dynamic, vivid and simple. How...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. As I was writing Surprise, I realised (although I decided to scrap) there are rules for group checks...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeon series, there’s an index here. Surprise and ambush are simple in second edition, so general principles: If...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the advanced fantasy dungeon series, there’s an index here. Vision gets a lot of time in second edition: Visibility by size and distance...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeon series, there’s an index here. Timekeeping basics in second edition are quite straightforward and iconic,...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the advanced fantasy dungeon series, there’s an index here. Second edition really believes in verisimilitude of equipment. How much can...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeon series, there’s an index here. Experience, oh how have I been dreading you! The reason being that there are...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. As discussed in the Player’s Handbook Read-through, alignment is problematic in its word choices and...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. The main subsystem I didn’t interacted with in the last post on Heritage is ageing, which in second...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. There is nothing in second edition’s conception or implementation of race that isn’t grounded in...
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I’ve been writing down everything that has influenced my thoughts in the development of Advanced Fantasy Dungeons as I went so as to avoid missing anything. These are the...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. This is a big task and one that I won’t fully flesh out in this post, but rather scratch out the...
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Advanced Fantasy Dungeons is a project where I design a paraclone of the second edition of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. A paraclone attempts to realise the designers intent,...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. Second Edition proficiency checks are simply ability checks, with a modifier applied to the target...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. This sketch is actually quite straightforward from the read-through, because a huge chunk of this...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. With Brian’s help I realised I’d miscalculated the mathematics on the last Rules Sketch (I find...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. Second Edition checks are roll under ability score, d20 rolls. Level success is subsumed into...
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So, people have asked me to work on Advanced Fantasy Dungeons (name TBC) in public, so, based on my close reading of the PHB, DMG, and some splatbooks from Second Edition, I’m...
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I’m reading through 2nd Edition as an educational exercise, and considering writing a retroclone for it titled Advanced Fantasy Dungeons. The purpose of the read through and...
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I’m reading through 2nd Edition as an educational exercise, and considering writing a retroclone for it titled Advanced Fantasy Dungeons. The purpose of the read through and...
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As I previously mentioned, I’m reading through 2nd Edition as an educational exercise, and considering writing a retroclone for it titled Advanced Fantasy Dungeons. The purpose...