Let's have a look at the grandpa of all D&D mass combat rules, Douglas Niles' first edition Battlesystem, supporting both the ...

European folklore often paints fey creatures as allergic to iron. This supports the idea that people with Bronze or Stone age technology, d...

Recent discussions started by Kiel and continued on G+ have got me thinking about why completely separating an adventure's text from it...

So if we are going to be handing out experience for monsters, and the 100 xp per hit die rule is generally good in my experience, there is o...

The basic superiority of demihuman player characters bedeviled the first and second editions of AD&D and haunted later versions of the g...

Brendan's comment on my previous post had me going back to the first AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide trying to pinpoint exactly ho...

The first AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide, as grognards well know, contains the touchstone Appendix N, in Frazetta cover, 1964 whic...

Following up the previous post , let's take history forward from the 1970's to now. In comparing the old controversy about the nudit...