Cave of the Dice Chucker

Something weird was going on in Gary's campaign that compelled him to write 20 paragraphs of rules for running sages in AD&D.  First...

One fateful night in the summer of 1985 I made a momentous trip to the mall with a pocketful of cash from my first paycheck. Sure, I'd m...

Readers:     After sleepwalking through the year, here comes Dice Chuckles with some year-end filler to meet his stoopid multiple-of-six-po...

Remember this old gimmick where, in a fit of hubris, I tried to clarify and paraphrase the AD&D rules into a more concise text? Remembe...

In my rush to pummel you with VATAPGOA last time , I overlooked some of the basics of unarmed combat. For instance, I kept calling it "...

You all thought I was dead after that Cuthbert's Day party at Malishefski's place, right? Ha, I'm back. Today's topic is, of...

It's balls. Today I'd like to take some time to talk about the psionic adversaries of the Monster Manual . There was a whole ecosyst...

For those keeping score, this is, finally, my actual 300th post .   Yesterday, with the help of Ponce the Paladin, we demonstrated how one d...

Let's get this out of the way at the outset: on their own, I think psionics are pretty freaking' cool. Although almost universally i...

I got it way wrong. In case you haven't been reading, I spent a week or more passing along misinformation about AD&D Surprise rules....

I'll admit that the 1 minute melee round renders a bit of sense from the segment-based Surprise Party. In all the other D&Ds that ju...

While a lot of folks have commented that when they played AD&D back in the day they swapped out a lot of the more confusing gibberish fo...

Since no one wants to read a spell by spell re-cap of AD&D, I'm skipping ahead to the meat of the matter: Combat . We're now loo...

Also: page 24 of the DMG . For this part you'll need to go to your local government surplus store and procure a military grade Dark Blac...

We're looking at weapons today kiddies so open to page 37 of your textbooks. You'll notice two tables on this page:  1. Weapon Profi...

The title sounds like a seminar offered by the sociology department, no? Rest assured, we're not getting into heavy topics here at Dicec...

Did you ever notice that his book says "AD&D" So you've played some modern version of Big D and for reasons known only to ...