Shadow of the Torturer (1980), by Gene Wolfe, the first part in The Book of the New Sun series, is an amazing work; so much that the first t...

I've been playing with this idea again . Basically, you have percentile values for each ability.  Each level gets you at least 2% better...

I started playing with these tables in the context of mass combat ideas, but it might be a good way to avoid handfuls of dice when your 8th...

Here is one huge simplification of old school D&D combat. I’ve written about this before, and I’m sorry if I end up repeating myself. [A...

I find AD&D better than B/X—arguably twice as good. But it also comes with five times the page count (and weight, price, etc.) In some w...

I had a brief mass combat idea that solved most of the issues I had with PCs fighting a few dozen goblins at once. This assumes there are o...

The progenitors are a nearly extinct species, and little is known about them. Humanity’s knowledge comes mostly from the observation of ruin...