Digital cameras can't really handle Day-Glo. I tried. The year: 1982. The text: electric typewriter and Letraset titles. The cove...

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...

What prompts a game writer to include rules that they don't even use in their game? It happened to Gary Gygax , writing the AD&D Dun...

Okay, after all this discussion , here is the solution I can best live with, done up in One Page format. The trick is to link XP to mo...

Juggling more thoughts about experience systems , I realized I see problems with pretty much every single-source solution. Yes, I'm inte...

The other day noisms expressed some nostalgia for the 2nd Edition D&D experience rules, where characters got experience for doing thing...

A little more aftermath from Dragonmeet: 1. The players felt the lethal fury as I made all rolls in the open (except for sensing rolls) an...

Who says leather armor has to be cheap? If the standard ratio of experience from monsters and treasures in most early versions of D&D...

I'm trying to assess the experience and advancement system for my game.  I'm making the following assumptions: 1. Given that the m...

Trossley Rule: To precede reports of Actual Play with something everyone can use, related to the run. In this case, a random table to det...

Now that I have spilled a ton of pixels on an elaborate and arcane experience point system, it's time to wonder if we shouldn't just...

It began with  " Orgies, Inc . " (we'll never see the days of R-rated Max Fleischer-style cartoons in mainstream gaming materi...

I'm of the belief that magic items should be rare. Fighting equipment with low "pluses" in my campaign is made out of one of t...

Killing, defeating, or otherwise overcoming monsters and hostile NPCs:   100 xp/ hit die, plus bonuses detailed below. If the party’s defe...

This is the advancement chart for all character classes in my house-rules, for levels 1-5. It's fairly easy to extrapolate beyond, as we...

In Utherton the survivors of our band tried to forget the death of their comrade, each in his or her own way. Boniface the holy militant, su...

Well, at least the original edition was not a game about role-playing - any more than Clue is. In both games you get a character to pilot...

The final session of the family expedition was a mellow exploration of the tavern area with a lot of character interaction and mystery solvi...