Gus L's latest activity

This is an ongoing development for me. I started with the classic boxed text and then the description underneath in a single paragraph...

I've been thinking a lot about keying again... perhaps it's my day job moving into highly restricted forms of informational writing...

"I adopted the rules I'd done earlier for a Civil War game called Ironclads that had hit points and armor class. It meant that players...

From my understanding (which could be wrong), armor class derived from some naval wargame and is descending because, in OD&D, it is a...

We do know that bows were frequently mentioned in "viking sagas" and found at many Northern European sites. They tend to be single...

On of the things I try to avoid in thinking about RPG mechanics, especially combat ones, is stuff that seems cool, or is too specific...

The one I use is "if you roll under a 5 on the to hit - regardless of any bonuses etc - you do full damage to an ally". It's bad enough...

I don't but since no one fires missile weapons other then throwing knives and axes more then once usually (the rules for firing into...

It doesn't matter if Tolkien's dwarves cast spells... This whole discussion reminds me of "Gandalf is a 7th level Magic-User tops"...

Personally I like to keep things a bit less granular and more abstract. I privilege location and placing over initiative and speed. My...

Some reflections and thoughts on Black Blade Publishing, after 16 years: Black Blade Publishing and the OSR Community Allan.

The big news is that for this issue White Dwarf expands to add an extra four pages, although there is a price increase to a whopping 75p...

So giant mega dungeons need a large amount of variety and factions. While ancient may tower of the mad elder god wizards is certainly a...

I mean BFRPG is fine as far as I know. It's a BECMI or B/X clone from the first wave of OSR retro-clones like Labyrinth Lord, Swords &...

Well, finding these reprinted snippets by Gary Gygax from A&E has been extremely fun to read through. I think it also sheds a good bit...