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No - they tend on the longer side for what they are - very late TSR - but that one is exceptional. To some degree I have to forgive...

I tend to agree the difficulty is 1) keying complex rooms and 2) Keying simple rooms in less standard spaces. E.G. "4 orcs arguing about...

Content is more important than format for sure. Simple rooms are easy to run regardless of format. If a room is complex enough that the...

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Gus, ty for the link as well as past thoughts on your blog; your writing along w/ others have been influential in terms of how I prep...

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...