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In Richard Garriott's DND1 written in BASIC in 1977, I thought this bit of code was interesting.

It would be Death Saves for HP in more modern discourse.

If the characters's HP are 0, the character survives if their CONSTITUTION is 9 or above.

If the characters' HP are below 0, the character survives if their CONSTITUTION is 9 or above, but they lose 2 points of CONSTITUTION and gain 1 hit point.

This was only 3 or 4 years after D&D had been introduced to the world.

#dnd#crpg#rpg
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It’s an OSE style cleanup of the rules to make it easier to learn, and teach. It’s the beginning of a line of books. It’ll be based on the new CC SRD and CC which will allow them to cleave closer to AD&D, for example the Monk is being added. Monsters alphabetized.
#OSRIC #ttrpg #dnd #osr #adnd

My #ose (that's old-school #dnd but you can use it for your game of choice) scenario The Magonium Mine Murders is a zine I have a complex relationship with. I think it's good, but there are bits I'm not 100% satisfied with in the presentation. Still, I think the scenario is fun and I love Ed Bickford's cover. So I'm putting it on sale!

£5 physical copies on my Gumroad store: jholloway.gumroad.com/l/magoni

$2 or even free digital copies on @itchio : james-holloway.itch.io/the-mag

hat tip to @toddlyons for the link. I wanted to add a comment to this excellent run down of the OGL and the industry. However, it gets one point wrong.

"But, there’s a reason that Creative Commons hasn’t caught on further: you have to either be committed to releasing your entire content into the Creative Comments ... or you have to carefully construct an SRD for each publication so that you only release certain content"

This is false. And this falsehood seems to have spread far and wide like an ear worm. To clarify, you can specify what is and is not under the license. It is your work, you can delineate it however you want.

designers-and-dragons.com/2025

www.designers-and-dragons.comIs the OGL Era Over? (Two Years Later) – Designers & Dragons