My B/X retro-clone has 5 classes. Fighter, Magic-user, Thief, Cleric and this one. It functions differently in my game (all classes have the...

In my never-ending search of efficient (or elegant ) mechanics for D&D, I keep going back to opposed rolls. Although this mechanic is ve...

DTRPG is holding an "OSR sale" with three different - and very interesting - bundles. Here are a few quick notes about them. ...

Charisma as a dump stat? No way! I'm talking old school D&D here - Charisma is TOO powerful, if anything. But let's start f...

Well, not that you should start at level 3. It's your game, do what you want. But 3rd level should be the norm  in my opinion. 1st lev...

Still analyzing and rewriting Moldvay basic. No new page today, sorry. Just some random thoughts about language in Basic D&D. B13 has ...

Still rewriting Moldvay Basic, one page at a time . Okay, that was harder than I expected. Moldvay's page B12 is a succinct table of e...