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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Three Other Affordances

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In this part two post about affordances, part 1 here , I'll use three more basic games as structural models for a different approach to ...
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The Grand Affordance

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Sort of catching my breath today. Moved over to working on the March Lantern, which will probably be late, not because of this work this mon...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

AD&D Should Be Ashamed of Itself

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As I wade into the thief and search the DMG for details about traps, I ran across this: "Assume that your players are continually wasti...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Auto-checking

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Not about the paladin this time: Detect evil, up to 60 ft. away. The rules expressly tell that this is something that's done when the pl...
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Saturday, January 17, 2026

Biathlon

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Saturday and there aren't a lot of readers about anyway... so I'll just scratch an itch. Not going to talk about D&D. I married ...
Friday, January 16, 2026

The Effing Paladin

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This effort to teach AD&D in a linear fashion has hit a snag with the paladin.  First, it took me three passes to find the right voice f...
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D&D was Written by Scrooge, who Died before Reforming

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There are passages in AD&D that are so egregious that I think it should be defacto a RULE that anyone praising the game should automatic...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Give a Hand

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I'm just going to assume that you're all staring open-mouthed and in awe that not only am I producing a logical, straightforward way...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Strength Issues

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Today's post is only going to be this. I'm not a hundred percent sure of my facts; I searched the Players Handbook and DMG and could...
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Monday, January 12, 2026

Fencebuilding

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Hold onto your britches, because before this post is over, I'm going to praise the White Box set and AD&D both. I grew up in a house...
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Sunday, January 11, 2026

Criticism by Submarine

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Because I could, I reformatted the content I've been putting up on the wiki  into PDF format, similar to my Lantern, as a gift to those ...
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Saturday, January 10, 2026

The Teaching Process and A.I.

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The present-day culture is so threatened by A.I. these days as to become deeply engaged in public shaming anyone who admits to engaging with...
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