My fireball problem (in B/X) is the fact that, in wilderness adventuring, the magic-user (MU) can destroy most encounters with a single fire...

To be honest, I never paid much attention to the BECMI reaction table.  I'm usually more interested in B/X and I thought that the BECMI ...

A small addendum to yesterday's post . I used this table as an example: This is only one the "swamp" tables in XGtE.   There a...

I've been analyzing the B/X wilderness encounter tables lately, and while I'll probably stick to that for now, I think since this bl...

I've been obsessing over random encounters for the past few days and, after much tweaking and rewriting, I am having trouble getting pas...

Last post was about the effort required to roll a single random encounter in B/X. This post is about how this effort often leads to results...

Let's look at the painful procedure of random encounters.  This is not simply theorizing; it is something that has been bothering me in ...