Observation 1: New players often ask if there is any way they can increase their ability scores. Old school dogma states that only magic can...

In the aftermath of my cooled-down, ISOTYPE-inspired 52 Pages modular rules project, the inevitable backswing is for numerous,complicated, w...

Continuing the series. If low Intelligence means a visual or cognitive impairment, low Wisdom means an auditory one, or ... well, I...

Continuing the series. One nice side benefit of treating low stats as specific disadvantages is that for the mental stats, you avoid the t...

Here's the Random Wizard on G+: I have been noodling over trying to make a system where having a low score is not necessarily a bad t...

It started when the Band of Iron tried to snap the bard's ghost off the path of regret by singing one of his songs to him. So the ques...

As teens we played two roleplaying games: D&D plus variants and Runequest. Runequest was attractive because it felt more realistic. Bu...

If you defend gender limits on Strength in a game because of "the basic facts of anatomy," are you going far enough? Most resear...

D&D's Wisdom stat seems to be the most easily dispensed when people write house rules and variants. If you don't like clerics, y...

These two pages really go together; one gives the basics of an approach to character creation, the other follows it through with some of the...

Following the program of One Page Rules, today I present a kind of "master handout" that introduces many of the vital stats charac...

Thinking about character stats and methods, using this chart of cumulative probabilities on 3d6 for the high end. The chance of rolling a .....