I like the idea, present in certain gritty RPGs, that a critical hit from a goblin with a rusty knife could kill most PCs, although the chan...

One thing I'm starting to dislike running OSR adventures* is the insane amount of treasure and magical items that you find. In addition,...

The "Basic D&D" level progression has up to 36 levels.   What if I told you you could you could get the same result with 20 le...

A brief note to my latest weapon series... You don't need to practice HEMA (or ANY martial arts, although maybe you should consider it)...

We´ve been reading  the original DMG  - the ultimate DM book! - but  from a B/X and OSR point-of-view . Check the other parts of this series...

Here is my revised B/X weapon list.  The goals is to make it simpler (fewer words/entries, also clearer), expanded (more weapons), more bala...

I've been  the original DMG  - the ultimate DM book! - but  from a B/X and OSR point-of-view . Why? This is explained in  part I .  This...