Another contribution for Eric Nieudan's project. This classical creep is to me the best-imagined of all Henry Justice Ford's mon...

I've had enough experience now with the spell lists of D&D and with creating my own distillation and derivative to notice something...

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...

Clovis Cithog, in a comment on an earlier post here, brought an idea up I thought deserved further development: I PREFER to use low abili...

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

I haven't posted that much about my Tomb of the Iron God campaign - though I did share one memorable mini-game event . I have been reluc...

I don't know why it is that of all the random bits-and-pieces monsters you could make (rabbit-headed giraffes ...rhinos with butterfly w...

Frank Mentzer & co. at Eldritch Ent have been drawing some flak for the "system-neutral" descriptions in their products. Appa...

In the Wizards editions of D&D, much is made of the tactical depth that the plethora of feats and skills gives to combat. This is part o...

Statting a monster, Original Standard style, is fairly simple. Let's take the giant troll in Egg of the Gazolba. The original can be fou...

In social science, when a number of variables characterize a single entity - say, six stats that define a character - one mode of analysis l...

Now let me make clear that I have no desire to use an analytic tool used by highly intelligent people in a somewhat inappropriate or dare I...

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