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by waysoftheearth

Sun Nov 02, 2025 8:15 am
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Re: V5 in Development

Today's preview touches on the epically debated topic of:

combat turns and melee rounds

Comments welcome...

by waysoftheearth

Tue Oct 28, 2025 8:53 pm
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Re: V5 in Development

Today's DD5 preview fragment is:

Combat Stats

This section hews an explicit stat block out of what's implied in the 3LBBs. Might end up in the appendices... TBC. In the meanwhile, comments welcome :)

by waysoftheearth

Sat Oct 18, 2025 12:49 pm
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Re: V5 in Development

Here we go DD followers, in today's update we cover off the pivotal intersection between:

normal and fantastic combat

Members get the full three pages of explanatory footnotes.
Should be of interest to anyone interested in OD&D...

Comments welcome :)

by waysoftheearth

Sun Oct 12, 2025 1:25 am
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Re: V5 in Development

Continuing to get slammed for the foreseeable, so progress has unfortunately slowed to one (weekend) post per week :| This week it's: 1:1 Scale Combat which covers the context/set-up around the 1974 combat game. Members get the full two-page annotated version explaining the hows and whys. Comments w...

by waysoftheearth

Sat Oct 04, 2025 2:03 am
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Re: V5 in Development

Apologies, it has been slower going lately (getting slammed IRL), but we push on!

For today's public preview, we have:
Command and Control
This is largely from UWA, so I don't expect it to be controversial, despite its infrequent use (that I've seen)!
Comments welcome, none the less :)

by waysoftheearth

Sun Sep 28, 2025 9:50 am
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Re: V5 in Development

Okay, now we get into the serious stuff at last. Combat. I've spent a couple days trying to get this section better organised-ish. I have so many footnotes and side-track essays, and whole re-writes of the combat system I can barely follow it myself. Let's get a start with: Who gets the first blow?

by waysoftheearth

Fri Sep 26, 2025 2:28 am
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Game Play Audio

DD V1 Demo Game (2012) The following audio retrospective summarises the November 2012 DDv1 demo game. The audio was generated by Google's LLM-Notebook AI from the original play-by-post game log. The AI summarises the audio as: ...an extended excerpt from a play-by-post (PBP) forum game detailing a ...

by waysoftheearth

Sun Sep 21, 2025 4:57 am
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Re: V5 in Development

In today's instalment, we preview the (rarely used) rules for:

Fatigue

Over two pages of footnotes explain how many of these morsels transition from OS and CM into DD. Enjoy!

by waysoftheearth

Sat Sep 20, 2025 12:18 am
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Re: V5 in Development

Next up for public preview, we have:

Falling Rocks

Comments welcome...

by waysoftheearth

Mon Sep 08, 2025 8:18 am
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Re: V5 in Development

This time, it's the vile and distasteful matter of:

Poison

Yerk :P

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