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I’m visiting my partner’s family this Christmas, and it has been the loveliest holiday season I’ve had in a very long time. It’s actually caused me to reflect a lot on what...
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So, here’s the thing: originally I wrote this like a fucking research article with a hypothesis, a methodology, and all that stuff. I’m not even a scientific research person....
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There is a somewhat frustrating rule in OD&D that experience points gained in lower-level dungeons (relative to character level) result in less experience points for characters...Linked by the ring
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I think the overwhelming response to recent changes by Wizards of the Coast in the ongoing One D&D project something like: “Cool new word! It’s still race science. Maybe...
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Sometimes, I (try to) talk about economics and end up bringing up a weird phrase: “social” value, or even “value” by itself. When I talk about social value, I refer to economic...
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Workbook Now Available On Itch! Bite-Sized Dungeons by Traverse Fantasy Edit: This whole time, I said that a first level dungeon hoard had 100 times d6 gold pieces when it...Linked by the ring
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Chainmail is an interesting ruleset for mass combat as well as individual scale combat, but its rules are a bit disparate and convoluted. They can also be difficult to...
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Just released my 1974 remake Fantastic Medieval Campaigns on November 11! Here, I wanted to answer some frequently asked questions and feedback. Some of them are mistakes I...Linked by the ring
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After almost fifteen months of extensively studying the original 1974 fantasy role-playing game, Fantastic Medieval Campaigns is finally available for download!! I wrote up a...Linked by the ring
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Releasing an "alpha" version of Fantastic Medieval Campaigns this Friday (11/11) on my Itch! FMC is my free retroclone of the original 1974 manual for fantasy campaigns, in...
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The advantage and disadvantage rule was introduced in Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition. It is explained as follows: when you have advantage, roll two dice and take the higher...
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There was a recent blog post by Undead Waffle that offers an alternative to the typical D&D hit point system [1]. Rather than rolling your hit dice to determine your hit...
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New blog series, “FAQ University”, to answer questions I commonly get in comments or discussions because of my blog! PSA: my computer is currently broken, so I can’t reply to...
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This was a stupid idea. I thought it would be handy to talk about the transition from feudal to capitalist society to get a better basis for an elf game economy, and ended up...
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I think 90% of people take for granted that Dungeons & Dragons (1974) has a market economy totally unlike whatever predominated in medieval Europe, i.e. rent and social credit....Linked by the ring
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I really like the idea of Nymphs as, like, natural spirits who take the form of young women and just hang out in their environment. I think the way they are treated in pop...Linked by the ring
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Before you get mad at me, I didn't come up with the title; Zedeck did! I have him to thank for that and also for inspiring me to revisit this topic by revising and expanding...
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This was a kinda-wargame, kinda-RPG that I wrote almost two years ago for some game jam on Itch. It's kind of an exploration of different Roman arena games: the munus, the...Linked by the ring
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It is not uncommon for a rulebook to introduce itself by its universal resolution procedure. It's become a cliche at this point, so let's say it together: "When your character...
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I thought I'd write a series about converting different Minecraft encounters and monsters to tabletop, because there are some interesting things to learn as far as monster...Linked by the ring
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Check this out. Just take a look. Come on. 2d6 d66 2 11 3 21, 12 4 31, 22, 13 5 41, 32, 23, 14 6 51, 42, 33, 24, 15 7 61, 52, 43, 34, 25, 16 8 62, 53, 44, 35, 26 9 63, 54, 45,...
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OD&D's "alternate" combat system was derived from Chainmail and became the basis for the standard D&D combat system as developed since Greyhawk, but it has certain quirks which...
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Now I get to be Traverse Fantasy on all my awful tabletop game-related profiles. Yippee!
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Most treatments of the reaction roll have the referee roll for reaction once at the start of the adventure, to see how the NPC immediately reacts to the presence of the...
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I’m worried this post is going to make me look stupid, so I wanted to say first that I really enjoyed David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years as an anthropological work and...
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In old D&D, you track the duration or quantity of items. For example, one torch lasts 6 turns; longterm spells often also last 6 turns; quivers can hold onto a certain number...
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I've lurked on your forum for a couple of years! That is me in the new user registration thread; I just now wanted to make an account because I was trying to investigate to...
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This is a simple scheme for character age and campaign time records in Mausritter, where you play as mice. To summarize on mouse age and campaign time: Mice have short...
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The great worm Letun rules over the underworld with iron fist and squiggly body. She protects the surface dwellers from the pesky mole people, in exchange for nothing but the...
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Lately, I keep seeing people discuss whether there can exist markets without capitalism. This is often phrased in terms of Marx's terminology for commodities. The circuit of...