A Curious Assortment of Rules
This is the 32nd in a continuing series of articles, which reedits house rules for Holmes Basic D&D from 40-year-old […]
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OD&D’s Magic Bonus for Miscellaneous Weapons
“MISCELLANEOUS WEAPONS: Those with bonuses of +1, +2 or +3 gain a bonus of equal merit on damage scored, except
Celebrating D&D
Back in 1980, a reporter who asked if D&D was only a passing fad learned that “Gygax and Blume think
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Dungeoneering
In his “Dispatch from the Campaign Desk” in L’avant garde #74 (August 1985), editor Dave writes: “From the Pandemonium Society,
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Movement, Encumbrance, Carrying Capacities, and Resting
Another curiosity in Holmes is the player character move rates. The Movement Table (9) shows that an “unencumbered, unarmored man”
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Movement and Encumbrance
The following article appeared in L’avant garde #63 (May 1984). Movement and Encumbrance by Phenster It’s true that our first
Anecdotes and Old Games, News
Raised on DnD
Interviewed for the Raised on DnD podcast, I talk with Nick Cardarelli about old-school editions of D&D, a little about
The Giant Kingdom: Another Holmes Uniquity
From the map of the “land” of the “Great Kingdom” and environs — the territory of the C & C
50th Anniversary of the “Forward” to D&D
In the FOREWORD FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION, I read a mysterious fairy tale. It began with “ONCE UPON A TIME,
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Models for Languages in Make-Believe Worlds
Languages reveal culture. Their use in an RPG campaign adds verisimilitude. Riffing off Phenster’s examples, we can introduce languages to