Adept Play
Adept Play
Author: alanb
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Observations on play in Toowoomba
I’ve been playing a few times with the local D&D club. Local in this case is Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. A reasonably large provincial city – where I started playing back in the 70s, when I was one of at most a handful of players in the whole town. Now, of course, there are hundreds of…
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Champions and Dinosaurs – Before D&D
As a change of pace, here’s some proto-roleplaying… Back in 1956, a guy called Tony Bath wrote a pair of articles in the Bulletin of the British Model Soldier Society. Titled “War Game of the Middle Ages and Ancient Times“, they contained the first published set of Ancient/Medieval wargames rules. Developed over time, these rules…
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Champions Now: Strength, Blocks, Martial Blocks
A question on Strength and Blocks (or Martial Blocks) What is the minimum a character’s Strength have to be to perform a Block or Martial Block? Specifically, how low can a character drop his or her Strength and still block an attack? This is a tactical issue in terms of Endurance use. For example, a…