Telecanter's Receding Rules

Update 4/26/14: I failed at reading comprehension.  Read this post as praise for Brendan's cool rule.  _______________________________...

I've long wanted to do some player handouts or booklets specific to each class.  Someone wants to play a fighter, give them a handout wi...

I wasn't quite sure how to handle what happens if you get stuck out in bad weather or don't have food and water.  Here is a round up...

Do you have simple rules for exposure or hunger and thirst? I'd like something simple enough that players can remember (important when...

What's the simplest system we could come up with for trading goods by sea that would still have some of the flavor of the real deal?  I ...

I'm going to be housesitting for friends the next few days and since I'm also approaching 600 posts I thought it might be a good tim...

Trollsmyth did a few posts recently about how if you want your players to do social interactions in-game you need rules that will push them...

Tim at Gothridge Manor dropped an idea yesterday about using spell components as enhancers to magic, not requirements.  I'm so taken wi...

I've been blogging more than a year now but it seemed weird to celebrate that anniversary because I'd disappeared for three or four ...

After reading your comments to my last post I remembered another aspect of the rules on my shortlist: they often deal elegantly with an issu...

I am in the process of compiling a document of what I think are elegant, and excellent house rules. Basically, the best I've encountere...

My brain is all afroth with ideas to post about and I'm trying to limit it to two posts a day, but I've been working on some revisio...

This is still a work in progress. I've tweaked the numbers a little added local guides and now that I have my campaign's first rog...

Ian of Swashbuckler's Hideout offers up some ideas on exploratory skills. First, I've blogged about my thoughts on skills in gener...

In commenting on a post here . J. Rients said: '. . . I really think we all need to look beyond this whole "system" thing....

There was some discussion recently on the Swords & Wizardry forums about troublesome aspects of the core rules as they stand. Matt Finch...

I chose abilities that I thought would work best in my campaign for my Choose-Your-Own Rogue class. But I thought you might be interested ...

First, this class is built on the thinking and sharing of others, like James Maliszewski , Skathros , Akrasia , and others. I want to thank...

There have been a bundle of thief implementations for Swords & Wizardry. I've read through them all. I like bits and pieces of eac...

I remember reacting negatively to the introduction to 2e. Not because of the rules, because at the time, I didn't know them yet. No, be...