The Tao of D&D

Between work and the book, and normal routine, I've also been working on this for a patron supporting my $30 tier, "Wiki Request....

Play around and game design long enough, and eventually you'll shatter some intricate fabric of the game that you've been playing fo...

Some real D&D, then. I've never had actual rules for this before. About time I should think. THROWING A GRAPPLE A grapple i...

I occasionally question the relevancy of some of my posts, given that I continue to live in a world affected by Advanced D&D from the la...

In the interest of shaking off this funk . . . Training to fight and defend in a mass formation, in which the presence of friendly combata...

I admit, I am crusty where the subject of weapons is concerned.  I don't mean to be.  It's a combination of bickering for the sake o...

I'd like to finish my description of primitive culture , or tech-5, with this post.  I have three things to talk about: tools, treasure ...

There is a natural resistance against things about which we cannot know for certain.   The effectiveness of certain weapons over others, par...

I must say it.  I don't care about weapons. I'm a D&D player, so I know I'm supposed to, but somehow I just can't get ...

Polybius was a Greek historian of the 2nd century BCE who lived much of his adulthood in Rome - about which he wrote a series of 'books...

I haven't had many pure campaign thoughts lately, but this has occasionally teased at me.  One of the benefits of running the real Earth...

At the beginning of Malcolm Gladwell's David and Goliath , the author addresses the deadliness of slings as terror weapons in an adroit,...

Recently, the post I wrote in 2011, Rethinking Intelligence , has make a terrific jump in page views. I have no idea why. Recently, however...

Been holidayin' ... but I must write something for this blog, mustn't I?  Thus I am offering this past two months work on the cler...

And once again, it's a question of firearms. Some time ago, Anthony who writes in the blog Of Pedantry  suggested putting up a firearm...

Why would anyone ever use a battle axe as a weapon?  Forgive me, I ask because the rules in AD&D show that a battle axe does the same da...