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Yeah, I think it's mostly three factors: 1) Page count/use at the table. B/X has explanatory material, but it's two pretty lean 64...

“Remember that this is a Holmes thread, and Holmes omits morale rules (despite mentioning morale in the Bless spell description and in...

Remember that this is a Holmes thread, and Holmes omits morale rules (despite mentioning morale in the Bless spell description and in...

So what I gather from reading that article is that Arneson created D&D? That as the whole point of the article and the litigation, right?

As I wrote in the preface to my last essay on D&D history ... no matter how many times I post about history or point people to resources...

Mechanically they were a Gish fighter mage, they could do both fighting and casting but not as well in either category as either...

I think that adventuring parties were expected to explore carefully, and avoid combat, if at all possible. Not all monsters that were...

I came to D&D with the BECMI edition, but after the deluxe reprint of OD&D came out a few years back, I decided to run a short session...

Necrotization protocol initiated One of the best rules in Holmes is that first level magic users and second level clerics may scribe...

I got a copy of the Holmes blue rulebook in a used bookstore in the late 90s and it was interesting comparing it with the Moldvay Basic...

Apologies for the thread necromancy, but coming across one of my favorite pictures in B/X always makes me chuckle and say "hu-mansplaining."

If you had purchased the set, you’d have been the lord of the blings.

Possibly the player packs.

I think it had to have been this “First Quest” product, unless it was one of the later iterations.