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by waysoftheearth

Sun Dec 07, 2025 7:49 am
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Re: V5 in Development

Today's preview is DD5's (more controversial) render of Alternative Attack Matrix I. See here: Determining Hits For a relatively straightforward attack matrix, some nuance is required to equate the 3LBB "level bands" with CM fighting capabilities. Moreover, we get Paladin FC for top-level ...

by waysoftheearth

Sat Nov 29, 2025 12:54 am
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Re: V5 in Development

Today's preview is the (reasonably uncontroversial) fragment on:

Turning the Undead

by waysoftheearth

Sun Nov 23, 2025 2:16 am
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Re: V5 in Development

Today's fragment for public preview:

Spells and Missile Fire

This section covers how spell/missile fire is handled at the round-by-round (rather than turn) level of detail, and how spell casting can be interrupted. Comments welcome!

by waysoftheearth

Sat Nov 15, 2025 10:11 am
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Re: V5 in Development

Today's public preview covers:

Movement In/Around Melee

Comments welcome!

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?

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