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Delta's D&D Hotspot: HelgaCon VIII – Outdoor Spoliation 3

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Math, history, and design of old-school D&D. Monday, May 18, 2015. HelgaCon VIII – Outdoor Spoliation 3. At HelgaCon in early April, for each of the last few years I've run a medium-to-high-level game (8th level PCs) set on the Outdoor Survival. Another change is that as of this year we're using my revised Book of Spells, 2nd Edition. To the limit). One change I made is to have the 4th-level extend spell. Which doubles the speed of up to 20 creatures. So whereas the party had in prior years loaded up...

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Paul's Blog » B/X Changelist

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Thoughts on gaming, pictures I took, and whatever else comes to mind. November 16, 2011. To date I’ve run my game using as a source book some modified versions of Labyrinth Lord. I made the effort to actually create physical books. Which has been well received. The idea with these books was that if I needed to make further changes to the text, they would be easy to update (they have re-openable bindings). Download the B/X Changelist. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Cool — that&#82...

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Into the Dark: March 2015

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Sunday, March 29, 2015. Backgrounds are the human equivalent of the nonhuman races' skills, powers, and ability bonuses. Unlike the backgrounds in 5th edition D&D, the backgrounds in Into the Dark. Are intended to more accurately reflect actual ancient and medieval societies. The backgrounds are intended as a quick, one-word way of summarizing a character's past; they provide a little bit of back-story, and a short list of background skills, without a whole lot of fuss or decision points. Background repr...

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Delta's D&D Hotspot: Vault of the Drow in Dragon 298

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Math, history, and design of old-school D&D. Friday, May 22, 2015. Vault of the Drow in Dragon 298. One last thing in the wake of my AD&D Module D3, Vault of the Drow. Game mentioned last week: Loren Rosson on his blog pointed me to the expansion of the Vault of the Drow, in particular detail on the depraved capital city, in Dragon Magazine. 298, August 2002 ( link. For me, it hits just the right note of total nightmare mixed with some subtle black humor. The other Drow articles in this issue would b...

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Delta's D&D Hotspot: Giants in the Earth Index

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Math, history, and design of old-school D&D. Monday, May 10, 2010. Giants in the Earth Index. From 1979 to 1982, Dragon. Below you'll see a complete list of characters included over the run of the series, including original literary creator, name of the character, and any class levels identified for them, presented in the same order as the original articles. (There are a very. 1) Multiclassing is essential. 2) Clerics are almost nonexistent. Cleric-like characters appear only 3 times on the list above (a...

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Delta's D&D Hotspot: SciFi Saturday – Boardgame House Rules

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Math, history, and design of old-school D&D. Saturday, January 12, 2013. SciFi Saturday – Boardgame House Rules. The Star Frontiers: Knight Hawks. Knight Hawks Boardgame House Rules. A ship or station in close orbit around an Earth-sized planet should travel 1/2 hex per turn, i.e., 1 hex every other turn (not 1 hex/turn as in the rulebook). Note that other, much more massive planets may permit faster orbit speeds. Orbital movement should be made after normal ship movement. April 14, 2013 at 10:51 AM.

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Delta's D&D Hotspot: Pole Arms Through the Ages

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Math, history, and design of old-school D&D. Monday, June 15, 2015. Pole Arms Through the Ages. A graphic found in "A Critique of the Theory of Evolution". Thomas Hunt Morgan, 1916; therein shown as Figure 2 and noted, "Metropolitan Museum. After Dean.". Thanks to Wikimedia Commons for making this image available ( link. June 16, 2015 at 9:24 AM. June 17, 2015 at 12:54 AM. June 18, 2015 at 12:55 AM. June 18, 2015 at 11:07 AM. The correct spellings are pole arm and poleaxe. The Wikipedia entry on pole...

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Delta's D&D Hotspot: What is the Best Combat Algorithm?

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Math, history, and design of old-school D&D. Thursday, July 16, 2009. What is the Best Combat Algorithm? Throughout the history of D&D and RPG's (and more generally, any action/ wargame), there have been a host of different algorithms to determining success in combat and other feats of skill and luck. For example: to-hit-tables, THACO, compare to increasing AC score, etc. Is it one of the aforementioned algorithms, or something different? THACO ALGORITHM: d20 mods ≥ THACO* - AC. The THACO was itself dete...

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Delta's D&D Hotspot: Spells Through the Ages – Fireball

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Math, history, and design of old-school D&D. Monday, July 25, 2011. Spells Through the Ages – Fireball. It got scorching-hot around here this weekend, so I figured it was the best possible time to investigate that iconic D&D spell, fireball. We laid the groundwork for this a week ago, since the true roots of the spell are in the Chainmail. Mechanics for catapult fire. Good, then off we go. Missiles: A Wizard can throw either of two types of missile (select which before play begins). A fire ball. Eliminat...