The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

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...

I did not have any spare writing time this week, so here’s just a quick note about XP. I like using these three XP progressions the best: ...

I sent off two articles for the upcoming issue of Fight On!, a weapons critical system and the Leech class (with rules for injury and diseas...

When I proposed handling ability drain in the previous post by testing for a worsening condition instead of deducting points from the abi...

"If hit points are luck, they shouldn't take so long to heal." ...Because all scientific experiments have shown that we re...

On the post about changing Cure Light Wounds so that it only heals damage from wounds and not other sources, azmountaintroll replied  ...

Here's a little something to think about: what if we changed the wording of the Cure Light Wounds spell, and the other healing spells to...

I ran another poll on both The RPG Site and RPGNet. This time, the question was "How do YOU track damage?" I was specifically loo...

"Hit points shouldn't be interpreted as luck because that's what the attack roll and saving throw represent." Nope. The ...

Edged weapons need more TLC. I had some rules once, somewhere, which I can't find, so let's do some new rules as a follow-up to  cal...

Every once in a while, someone complains that clerics are way overpowered compared to other classes because they can "absorb more damag...

I saw this interesting statement in a forum thread: "the concept of one hit point mooks is such a dissociated mechanic that it complete...

There's been some discussion in a couple places about an ideal "real swords & sorcery RPG". I'm mulling over some stuf...

One of the background projects I've been working on is a redesign of the damage tracker I did a while back. The idea behind the damage ...

One of the things I've been mulling over about effects like "tired" or "injured" is whether they should have a binar...

All this talk about level drain reminded me that I once proposed the aging attack used by ghosts is a good alternative for those who absolut...

The RPG Pundit claims that people who like level drain are victims of false nostalgia for nostalgia's sake: ... is there anyone who a...

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

I talked a little bit about the Judges Guild poisons and how I would change them to get away from using a table. However, the JG poisons als...

I know I still have to do Part Two of the race-and-chase stuff, but I have some other things I'm getting ready to write about, too. And ...