Post by Admin on Mar 8, 2016 3:18:17 GMT
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HOW TO USE NON-PRIME-REQUISITE CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES
by Wesley D. Ives
June 1976
Simply, this one was an article about Ability Checks.
In AD&D, the standard ability check is simply to roll equal to or under the relevant ability on a d20, basically. Sometimes, 3d6 is used, and, in the WSG, the concept of 19 or 20 as always failing is introduced.
Despite the fact that this article presents us with a more complex resolution system (something that will be visited again in a later issue of Dragon), it's worth a glance, just to see how some things remained the same over 30 years of (O)(A)D&D: for example, the concept of what the Strength score is did not change over 30 years.
Resisting the temptation to pick apart certain aspects of this article, part-by-part, I'll close with a question:
How do you resolve Ability Checks in your games?
HOW TO USE NON-PRIME-REQUISITE CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES
by Wesley D. Ives
June 1976
Simply, this one was an article about Ability Checks.
In AD&D, the standard ability check is simply to roll equal to or under the relevant ability on a d20, basically. Sometimes, 3d6 is used, and, in the WSG, the concept of 19 or 20 as always failing is introduced.
Despite the fact that this article presents us with a more complex resolution system (something that will be visited again in a later issue of Dragon), it's worth a glance, just to see how some things remained the same over 30 years of (O)(A)D&D: for example, the concept of what the Strength score is did not change over 30 years.
Resisting the temptation to pick apart certain aspects of this article, part-by-part, I'll close with a question:
How do you resolve Ability Checks in your games?
