Explore: Beneath & Beyond

Encumbrance is a tricky issue – it promises realism / believability but tends to feel like an accounting exercise whose only effect is to gi...

I omitted Encumbrance from my post on Athletics abilities in November because my old system had some flaws in it, so I’ve been working on ...

Apologies that my post on encumbrance is long delayed - Christmas was great but I've been rather busy which stopped me blogging though ...

I used very little of the content of D3 - there's a large proportion of it being endless stats for the estates of the Drow families, and...

A couple of years ago my players ventured into The Vault of the Drow. Disguised as Drow they entered the city of Erelhei-Cinlu and looked fo...

“The Cat Test” is a test I devised for calibrating my game in homage to the infamous deadly house cat in AD&D. It's statted up in Mo...

I've been examining how in different situations you want different methods for resolving character actions – in some cases it should be...