Spells and Steel

Development blog for Spells and Steel, an RPG system for simulating a low-magic 14th-century Europe, as well as general D&D, OSR, and RPG thoughts

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11 March 2019

"Alignments that aren't stupid" in action

I wrote about a new concept to map onto the term alignment some years ago here: https://spellsandsteel.blogspot.com/2015/12/alignments-that-...

12 October 2018

Phased Real-Time Combat - The Solution You Didn't Know You Needed

Phased Real-Time round structure dates back to the 1824 Kriegspiel rules; that is to say, to the very origin of wargames and of roleplaying ...

16 August 2018

Healing: The Disabled List and Character Rosters

Major League Baseball has something called a disabled list. I'm sure other sports have something similar, but I only follow baseball. At...

12 August 2018

Archery: Variable Range Increments

Following up from yesterday's post. A reminder on methodology. I've taken men's longbow classifications from the Braintree Bow...

8 August 2018

Archery: Towards a Foundation

I was thinking of archery, and was immediately reminded that Delta had done some good work on the subject some time ago: http://deltasdnd.bl...

3 March 2018

Response to "Fight Semantics" at Tao of D&D

Alexis and I were discussing why players always want to don their armour before a fight, and we got drawn into the question of the weapon&#...

18 December 2017

Railroads vs. Sandboxes

In response to Alexis, here: http://tao-dnd.blogspot.ca/2017/12/everything-is-road.htm l This is interesting food for thought, but I don&#...

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About Me

Charles A: Game-master, history buff, focused on 14th/early 15th century.

Started gaming at 9 years old with the Mentzer Basic set, and over the years, have played BECMI D&D, 2E AD&D, Pathfinder, and any number of homebrew wargames, story games, and RPGs.

I'm a strong believer in the OSR, the kind of gaming it represents, and the DIY/hobby-gamer mentality.

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