When reading many of the early D&D materials, such as from OD&D through to AD&D 1st Edition, one may get the impression that it’s actually using a percentile-based spread of probabilities, except using the d20 to split it into 5% increments. After all, the spread of AC values from 9 to -10, and the frequent… Read More Using percentile rolls in old-school D&D

I started a new game of AD&D 1st Edition today, and fully cognizant of the lethality of the early levels (8 HP on a level 1 Fighter versus monsters that roll 1d6 for damage!), I decided to take a page from 13th Age as a means of making near-death hurt, without making it into a… Read More A simple alternative to old-school death