The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

The Problem In a thread on Reddit’s /r/osr subreddit, someone asked about ways to award XP for disarming or otherwise dealing with traps ....

There’s been a discussion elsewhere on which GMs award experience for magic items. I don’t, unless the item is sold, but I may change that. ...

In yesterday’s post about attacking invisible creatures , I suggested that I might rule out any attacks against invisible creatures at all u...

In a thread about missile ranges on the OD&D forums, I tossed out some ideas I’m considering to replace the bonus for short and medium r...

On the OD&D forums, there’s a thread asking for everyone’s “top five” fixes for OD&D. I answered there, but thought I should preserv...

To continue with  my investigation of the Read Magic spell , here are my current thoughts on how it works. It's a shortcut . Spell re...

I don't recall anything in the OD&D books that mentions what happens when you gain enough experience to increase two or more levels,...

For the record, here are my potential house rules for poisons, based on the previous posts. Simplified Judges Guild approach to poisons ...

Another thing I said in a forum thread that I should probably remember (although I think I wrote about it here before as well: Roll an ext...

This post is mainly so I don't lose something I wrote in a thread before I put it in a house rules document. Any shield improves armo...

Someone (Lord Gwydion, I think) pointed to this post on super-simple combat maneuvers . Not a long post, but I'll summarize: roll attack...

The tail end of yesterday's post, where I started rambling about handicapping characters with abilities that are too powerful or too num...

Brendan and I have been discussing bonuses to climbing , which has reminded me of something I said once about how I handle modifiers to roll...

I've talked about the 1% tax on xp before, but James Maliszewski brought the topic up again , so I thought I'd expand on some of th...

This isn't a clone-related post, but just some potential house rules. I was thinking about the day-to-day functions of a non-adventurin...

No major post today, but I've been thinking about ranges, especially since I'm going to need to figure this out before I get around ...

These are some quick thoughts about level caps for non-human races. A lot of people hate them because they feel they are arbitrary; on the ...

There's been discussion on Dragonsfoot about whether magic-users who fall into rivers or swamps risk having their spellbooks destroyed. ...

I'm not a big fan of 7th through 9th level spells. I like the old spell levels of 1 to 6. It keeps magic somewhat under control. This ...

In the one-page dungeon maps I've posted for the MegaLex project, I've used this procedure for wandering monsters: roll 2d6, lowest ...