It's been a long time...

...since I last wrote anything in this blog. I had (and still have) a blast focussing on another passion - Ancient Domains Of Mystery (ADOM). Nonetheless The Fantasy Game keeps popping to the forefront of my mind while dabbling with the planned RPG rules for ADOM and the impending release of D&D 5th edition also resparked my interested in old school gaming.

Reading OD&D from cover to cover: Abilities versus attributes

In my second to last post about attributes I made a mistake resulting from preconceptions created by later editions of the game: I called strength, intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, constitution and charisma attributes instead of abilities. While this might seem to be a minor point at first I now believe (after some thinking) that it is one of those essential tiny points that really characterize OD&D (and the OSR).

Reading OD&D from cover to cover: Rolling attributes (part I) starting with an amazing revelation

By now I am well into writing the sections about attributes for 'The Fantasy Game' and I was kind of suprised by the initial statement in the LBB about the process of doing. So much surprised that I was speechless for a moment as I don't remember seeing that statement in any edition of D&D ever... but maybe that is just my faulty memory. The initial statement in the attributes section is: