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Recalculating a Coin’s Weight

Stephen Wendell • February 15, 2022

In “Holmes on a Coin’s Weight,” we take the Editor’s proposed weight of a standard coin—twice that of a quarter—and […]

Stephen Wendell • February 8, 2022

…for 300 gold pieces are assumed to weigh about 30 pounds (Holmes, 9). Melqart raised the torch over his head.

Stephen Wendell • January 28, 2022

Once the party is engaged in melee, arrows cannot be fired into the fight because of the probability of hitting

Stephen Wendell • January 28, 2022

Here I excerpt a chapter of Littlelot and the Rescue of Gwenevere, because everyone likes a joust. In the story,

polyhedron noun: a solid formed by plane faces —Webster’s According to Webster’s, the plural of polyhedron is polyhedrons or polyhedra.

“Jousting in Chainmail is like playing rock-paper-scissors.” The analogy is as oft cited as apt. In Chainmail (3rd ed., Tactical

As a child, the word for me was imbued with mysterious and profound meaning. I understood that it was the

Brief instructions below the ENCOUNTER KEY EXAMPLE in Set One: Basic Dungeons gives ‘Approximately 25%’ as the monster probability… While

Coming, as it does, between the original edition and Advanced D&D, the Basic Dungeons & Dragons (1977) edition is in

While the Monster & Treasure Assortment gives us the particulars of the dungeon’s inhabitants and their wealth, it and Holmes

If the Monster & Treasure Assortments had got more play… —“What’s your Hack-9?”—“What’s that?”—“You know, your attack level—what do you