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...

From Notes on Camp to notes on camping ... I guess it makes sense. Inspired by this post of Telecanter's I boiled down a simple rule fo...

From the halcyon days of 2008, and the workshop of 4th Edition, comes  this testimonial   to the Ever-Rising Statistical Treadmill as desig...

The rules for damage and healing. I'm particularly happy with "1 HP/level fatigue damage" because it covers so many situations...

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

One more thing left over from my examination of what hit points mean : Players act a lot differently with 30 hit point characters than with ...

My current game goes with the idea that the hit points of player characters and other beings with character levels represent some intangible...

Hit points evolved from the game Battleship? Close. Dave Arneson in this interview traces the concepts of hit points (and armor class, fo...

I guess everyone who writes about D&D has to tackle the enigma of hit points sometime. Here's the basic paradox: 1. Hit points are...