Just for fun, I used the Damage = 4 * Log5(Kinetic Energy) conversion on a longer list of cartridges than I provided here. As you can see, most weapons fit into a fairly small range of stats. The .22LR does about as much damage as a shortbow (between 1d6+3 and 1d6+4), where a 7.62 Battle…
Castles and Chimeras is an OSR Blog I stumbled across when it went live with a simple but great concept idea: Critical Hit Range is based on the armor worn by the defender. In short, I love it. I might tweak a bit, because some monsters may have good armor class but wear no armor…
Played in +Jonathan Henry‘s Basic D&D game today. We were fighting a giant, and a mainspar fell, killed the giant, and also our Cleric. His tombstone now says “Level 2 and loving it.” My character:Linwë Celebrindal (Lin-wee Kel-eh-brin-dahl)Basic D&D Elf: Female, Adult, Threadbare Clothing, Tall HP: 3 AC: 4 XP: 0 Attributes: STR: 11INT: 16…