#BX D&D

[oldschoolfrp]

In the beginning there was Dungeons and Dragons™ -- Original Dungeons and Dragons, later called the Collector's Edition. Then there were Greyhawk and Blackmoor and Eldritch Wizardry, which were essentially Expanded Original D&D. Then came Advanced D&D (which was advanced Original D&D), and Basic D&D (which was basic Original D&D). And ultimately, we have Expert D&D, which is expert Basic D&D, not expert Original D&D, or expert Advanced D&D; and Expert Basic D&D brings it all to the same approximate scope as Original D&D. One gets the impression that the TSR crew spends its off-hours designing mazes for rats to become lost in.

Aaron Allston summarizes the history of D&D editions through the first 8 years, from the opening paragraph of his review of Cook & Marsh's Expert D&D rules in The Space Gamer 38, April 1981. His review is generally positive, noting that it is much better edited while fixing some but not all problems with the original game:

I wish I had had the Basic D&D series when I began gaming. The rules sets are legible, indexed, punched for 3-hole notebooks, reorganizable, and, best of all, understandable. One actually can learn the game from the rules, something not possible with Original D&D. That is, however, perhaps the most annoying part about this set of rules. With sufficient playtesting, it could have been released seven or eight years ago, instead of the original set. This series is the product of hindsight.

The complete 1981 B/X D&D (Moldvay's Basic and Cook & Marsh's Expert) remains one of the best-loved early versions of D&D, directly inspiring many of the OSR clones like Labyrinth Lord and Old School Essentials.

#Aaron Allston #Dungeons & Dragons #D&D #gaming history #dnd #The Space Gamer #Dave Cook #Steve Marsh #Expert D&D #OD&D #BX D&D #Dungeons and Dragons #Space Gamer #1980s

[shaneplays]

User jillatized on reddit "Another Erol Otus tribute piece for NukeCon in Omaha later this month. Will be auctioned for Extra-Life kids charity" https://www.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/xcpk6s/another_erol_otus_tribute_piece_for_nukecon_in/

#erol otus #d&d #dnd #B/X D&D #BX d&d #art #fantasy art #rpg #osr

[stuffy-just-doodles]

I feel like it's been a couple of days since i really posted anything (finals are crazy man) so here is just stuff i drew behind the scenes:

A mix of things i know. But it do be like that sometimes.

#welcome home au #smg4 #off game #continue/stop/rise #off batterie #stuffy doodles #guess where im going again in fixations #but ye this is what ive been doing :D #csrverse #bx execute #i forgot to add those tags

[black-hedron]

How can anyone not love this?

#becmi #od&d #old school rpg #osr rpg #bx #ttrpg #tsr

[lichdragon-fortissax]

We’ve all heard the jokes about if the Tarnished talked more (leading to the joke of Malenia joining in to fight Mohg), but what about if people payed attention to what they were wearing/wielding? I.E. Malenia just wakes up from her nap and there’s a suspiciously short Cleanrot Knight in the room for some reason.

Tbh I would absolutely kill for that, that would be so fucking funny. I can kinda see why they didn't go for something like that (too much code in an already huge game), but they've done it before in Bloodborne, where Adella refuses to speak to you if you aren't wearing church clothes, and I would have loved to see something similar in Elden Ring where bosses or npcs had a slightly different reaction to you wearing another faction's colours or standards when facing them.

That also reminds me- I miss when vendors and npcs used to get startled or upset when you ran off without saying goodbye! Like in Demon Souls where the blacksmith in the mines will get all huffy at you being rude to him, or in Dark Souls 1 where Andre would go 'oi, where are you off to?!' when you'd leave without upgrading anything and the undead merchant would tell you to go jump off a cliff for not buying anything (a hollow threat in a game where you play as an undead, btw). It was small but it added more realism to the interactions, and I liked it despite usually hating npc questlines in every game I play. Give us back our huffy npcs, Fromsoft!

#Elden ring #Anon #Reply #Imagine Hewg getting mad at you running off #Or D being cold bx you shunmed his miracles #Ir would be great

[fyeah-cix]

#cix #bx #byunggon #p: universe #e: sns #d: 220728

[whinnylikeahorse]

#ttrpg #indie ttrpg #bx #osr #d&d and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

[prokopetz]

Proposals to refer to One D&D as "6th Edition" in order to spite Hasbro marketing don't go far enough. We should retroactively assign full edition numbers to every major core rules revision for which the game's publishers declined to do so, as follows:

White box OD&D is now 1st Edition

Holmes Basic is now 2nd Edition

AD&D 1st Edition is now 3rd Edition

BX/Moldvay Basic is now 4th Edition

BECMI/Mentzer Basic is now 5th Edition

AD&D 2nd Edition is now 6th Edition

The Rules Cyclopedia is now 7th Edition

The AD&D 2nd Edition Player's Handbook redux with the infamous "This Is Not 3rd Edition" foreword is now 8th Edition

Player's Option is now 9th Edition

D&D 3rd Edition is now 10th Edition

D&D 3rd Edition Revised (3.5E) is now 11th Edition

D&D 4th Edition is now 12th Edition

D&D Essentials is now 13th Edition

D&D Next (later informally rebranded as "5th Edition" due to consumer pressure) is now 14th Edition

Finally, this means the forthcoming One D&D is 15th Edition.

Make sense?

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #dungeons & dragons #d&d #wizards of the coast #hasbro #branding #nameology

[maxthevictim]

Sorry for interrupting your peace by request but here

(art by frazzdude)

I finally had something to say,is that i need you to make this. (As B-side)

(Powerpuff girls exes) owner by @frazzdude

D-side ver of BX is kinda hard to draw… idk why but it’s kinda hard to me…:(

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(This pic(comic) by @mra1f )

#art #drawing #artists on tumblr #artwork #digital art #creepypasta #powerpuff girls #exe #d sides

[shieldfoss]

Following up on that previous point re the difficulty of programming being a union of the difficulties of STEM and humanities:

"RAX" is a register in x86-64 intel

"EAX" is also a register in x86-64 intel

"AX" is also a register in x86-64 intel

"AH" and "AL" are also (two) registers in etc./

(That last one is technically not true)

This illustrates the point twice-over, first by the unreasonable back-compat of x86, and second by the unreasonable entrenchment of x86.

(Readmore added when I realized I was about to write "Let's go back to the 8086")

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Let's go back to the 8086 :3

Alright so the 8086. It's popularity is seen in the two senses of its longevity.

The more obvious one is its twenty year life span - it launched in 1978 and you could still buy it in 1998, twenty years later, what?

But it's less-obvious-to-outsiders longevity is this: The language you wrote in to talk to the 8086, the x86 instruction set, is still in use today - everything I do at work is compiled into a dialect of x86 (Specifically x86-64).

The instruction set has been extended a lot since then so you can talk about the features of newer chips but to the best of my 20 minutes of research, a program compiled for the 1978 intel 8086 will still run on a 2023 intel 14900K[1]

So what is the 8086 like?

Well, it has some of those registers I mentioned - it doesn't have EAX and RAX, but it has AX, AH and AL - and BX, BH, BL, and a C... and D... variant of those.

"Oh wow 12 general purpose registers" well yesexceptactuallyno.

There's a reason they're grouped as 3 x 4 letters "A(X,L,H), B(X,L,H) ..." rather than just having 12 letters for 12 registers.

AX is actually just AH and AL next to each other. You can store 8 bits in AH, or 8 bit in AL, or 16 bit if you combine them, with the combination-name AX.

The proper way to describe it is to say that the 8086 has four 16-bit general-purpose registers, AX, BX, CX and DX, each of which has a High and a Low part of 8 bits each.

Alright, we're done talking about the 8086, because a newer chip comes out it's 32 bit! Let's add some 32 bit registers! Let's add EAX, the extended AX register.

Wait that's a terrible name, what? Call it like A32 or something.

Did I say "we're done talking about the 8086?" So that was a fucking lie.

Of course we're still taking about the 8086! All the world's software is written to run on an 8086! If your processor doesn't have an AX register there's no software for it and you won't get any sales - but if you have an AX register taking up space that could be used for a 32 bit register, your chip will be too inefficient and you also won't get any sales. Easy solution: It's the same register! Code that wants to use a 32 bit register asks for EAX, code that wants to use a 16-bit register asks for AX and it just gets the bottom half of the EAX register! Beautiful!

And that's why you have to name it "EAX" - if your user writes to AX, and then to A32, they might get surprised that AX was overwritten. But if they write to EAX, to the extended AX register, they'll know they're overwriting AX.

Wait.

Wait.

Surprised?

What's this "surprised," how is a software delevoper getting surprised, I thougth we were in STEM here? Pure, clear first-principles reasoning, correct logic application and so on?

No - we're in the part of software that is dominated by the difficulties of the Humanities - as a software developer sitting down to hand-roll some x86, you do not have the luxury of a true physical understanding. You have to know what the chip designer decided, not what the laws of physics are. Understanding this is less like Quantum Mechanics and more like Jura, where you need to know a bunch of texts that have nothing to do with justice qua justice and everything to do with how human systems have interpreted justice over the last many centuries. Or like politics! You can lobby for changes! Try doing that to solve your problem with the Fine Constant!

So that's the "unreasonable back compat"

The "unreasonable entrenchment" is that Intel tried to kill x86. It's bad! I mean let me be clear, x86 has one advantage and that is "historical presedence" By just about every other measure it is bad.

Intel knows this! They invented a new instruction set 20 years ago (a reminder here that x86 is 40+ years old) and (1) it was better and (2) it failed miserably because it wasn't x86 back compatible. Oops! So we've been struggling along with x86 back compat ever since.

The unreasonable back compat means that x86 is not the best instruction set for modern chips, as it must also model old chips.

The unreasonable entrenchment is that we can't get rid of x86.

They're trying again now (They annouced x86-S earlier this year) so maybe! But probably not.

[1] Caveat here - it will run on a modern cpu but if you have installed a modern operating system then the operating system will not run it - this fact is exclusively about the hardware realities of the x86.

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#grumblr #unreality #Intr* p*st

[oldschoolfrp]

Greg Gillespie, author of Barrowmaze and other OSR titles, has launched a Kickstarter for his Dragonslayer Role-Playing Game.

I've mentioned before that many of us who started with a "Basic" edition of D&D never actually played AD&D as written, but added AD&D's best new rules to Basic's cleaner structure. That's exactly what Dragonslayer is meant to be by design. From his pitch:

Most of us kept using the Basic Engine (elegantly restated by Tom Moldvay in 1981) and grafted the chrome of First Edition onto our existing style of play. We used First Edition spells, character classes, monsters, and all the adventures. We left behind lame rules that bogged down gameplay and made it feel like actuarial science (for example, counting segments for spells or weapon-speed factors, among others). This wasn't Moldvay Basic and it wasn't First Edition. This was the edition we all played. We called it .75 or halfway between BX and 1E. This is the ruleset that I've played for decades. This is how I play medieval fantasy role-playing games. This is the way…I want to play fantasy role-playing games.

(KS runs through September 29, 2023)

#Dragonslayer Role-Playing Game #Dragonslayer RPG #Greg Gillespie #OSR #Kickstarter #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #gaming history #B/X D&D #AD&D

[beardedmrbean]

For once, AOC is right: “They can’t afford to live here any more,” she said Monday of working-class Gothamites.

Thing is, it’s the policies that she and her progressive allies wants more of that have made the city so expensive.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bx./Queens) is, after all, a Democratic Socialist.

Look at what occasioned the digital town hall where she spoke: recently announced cuts across city agencies.

Why are these needed?

To pay for the migrants AOC and her ilk demand we admit in infinite numbers, and house and feed forever at a cost of more than $12 billion through fiscal 2025 (and that’s a conservative estimate).

What about housing? A recent survey shows a third of New Yorkers are paying over half their income for rent.

Lefties used that fact to call for even more rent control — which in fact is a huge reason city housing is so limited.

Beyond that is the way progs have done so much to reduce the amount of housing, from blocking renewal of the 421a tax break for developers (responsible for the vast majority of new affordable housing in the past two decades) to 2019’s Tenant Protection Act, which has taken 43,000 units off-market because it doesn’t let landlords cover the costs of bringing old apartments up to code.

Now, the city’s on track to see only 11,000 new units built this year, half the number from 2022. 

And this is to say nothing of the state’s “Green New Deal” climate laws that are already sending power prices for New Yorkers skyward. 

Or the billions of dollars stolen by shoplifting thugs from retailers big and small thanks to the criminal justice “reforms” AOC and her compatriots back. 

AOC offered her usual prescription on this issue: tax the rich!

But they’re fleeing the state and city in droves, also thanks to our progressive overlords. 

AOC and her fellow leftists simply don’t care what their ideas actually mean for the people whose interests they claim to represent.

And if progressive ideology continues to rule New York, it’ll get ever more unaffordable — and the exodus accelerate.

#nunyas news #enough leave housing won't be a issue anymore #tax the rich thing is funny too #let's look at why bezos moved to florida for starters

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[black-hedron]

Using AI for a little play for inspiration to write something. A One Shot? probably.

#tsr #od&d #old school rpg #osr rpg #bx #becmi #old school essential

[rockintapper]

octy idk if you said it already, but........

happy tap troupe thursday :D

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