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In most campaigns I've played, the passage of time on a larger scale is handled liberally. We tend to see the value in handling smaller scale time via procedure, thinking of...Linked by the ring
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Some notes before I just copy and paste this whole thing:I'm using a pound/shilling/penny coin denomination, with a ratio of 1L : 20s : 240d.I opt for 2 mile hexes because I...
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This is a record of a rule we improvised while playing You Awaken in a Strange Place [1] by Jacob Andrews of Drawfee fame. If your character finds themselves stricken with a...
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These are some scattered notes on hexcrawls, to brainstorm some fun ideas for places of interest and to reflect on my past experiences with hexcrawl rules. There's no order to...
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Knave by Ben Milton was my first light-weight old-school D&D sort of game that I ran for my friends. I suggested using it because although some of them were familiar with Fifth...
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I played Valiant Quest [1] with some friends this weekend and it was a blast! We all had a great time constantly tripping and falling over ourselves and getting pushed around...
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In this post, I'm going to offer one view on the difference between abilities and skills as they are often defined in tabletop role-playing games. This is informed by previous...
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"What is a lyric game?" Wouldn't we all like to know!There might not be much use in trying to define something that, for many, is best left undefined. In their recent article...
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Gus L just wrote a post about treasure with respect to encumbrance (link), and I know he's going to write a sequel that gets into more theoretical depth (and incorporate it...
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I don't see this being a very long blog post, but I wanted to make it as a companion to one I wrote this past August (link) about comparing different combat systems. This time,...
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In this blog post, I'm going to investigate what I find dissatisfying about the use of ability scores in tabletop games since their functionality was expanded upon between the...
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the first section of this is going to be a lot of annoying math. if you prefer to just see the outcome of the math as a little thing you could plug into an od&d campaign (or...
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originally published on twitter, but putting on here for posterity.i've hidden most everything on my itch page and i'm not going to be selling products on here anymore because...Linked by the ring
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by the end of this, i promise you'll have something useful! first, here is a cleaned up version of the one-on-one combat matrix for chainmail from my upcoming remake of the...
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i think that generally speaking, people are interested in od&d because it lacks any consistent interpretation. by reading something into it and saying that it's what gygax et...
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how useful is that big table in chainmail that lets you find your kill chance by comparing weapons to armor? you know, this one:statistical analysislet's see! first, i...
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my friend ty (@eldritchmouse) wrote up a great blog post about a new way to introduce memory states into random tables, called ladder tables (link)! i wanted to share my...
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PART 3you know how d&d 4 was universally reviled for being a turning point in how d&d was expected to be played, even though it made sense in hindsight of previous developments...
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traditionally, torches have a constant duration of six turns or one hour. what happens when we change this up?variable durationresources with variable duration are in practice...
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i'd like to look at statistically equivalent methods of handling combat in tabletop games, and draw out their differences with respect to how they affect the play...
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the dungeon exploration procedure for the 1974 edition of dungeons & dragons is given in volume 3, pages 8-10. here is a selection of passages throughout those pages to best...
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let me just give the rundown!in the original dungeons & dragons (1974), a dungeon turn was not the amount of time it took to perform an action. instead, a turn is the interval...Linked by the ring
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Surprise! You get some proper punctuation because I originally wrote this in a Word document.In OD&D, 3d6-based effects are tied together under a particular ability...
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woe to you who strive with your Maker,earthen vessels with the potter!does the clay say to the one who fashions it, "what are you making?"or "your work has no handles!"woe to...
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PART 2last time we talked about the structural underpinnings of (old school) dungeons & dragons as a language or a system of interactions. i argued that what sets apart (old)...
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from my secret twitter:frankly i’m not concerned about the indie rpg “industry” bc i don’t wanna prop up a whole new market just bc wotc sucks asslike i’ll buy cool things from...
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what i love about pandemic is that each player role represents a major exception to the rules of the game. it often turns out for me that playing one game, and then another...
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unfortunately i don't think there's a way to adapt minecraft to a tabletop role-playing format if we think of tabletop role-playing games as vehicles for collaborative story...
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PART 1i don’t think this article will ruffle anyone’s feathers. i’ve had the pleasure of only interacting with old-school gamers [1] that aren’t somehow neopagan fascists and...Linked by the ring
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edit: fixed!!instead of having THAC0 values which you use by basically rolling d20 >= that number and adding the opponent's AC (a table is usually included to be helpful),...