OD&DITIES #11

December 2003, 35 pages

Table of Contents (author in parenthesis):

• Legendary Items: A Herol Follow-up (Carl Quaif)
  • Despite the fact that Herol’s Age of Legends ended cataclysmically nearly a thousand centuries ago, certain relics of that age have managed to survive through the intervening millennia.
• War Paintings in D&D (Tosatt Earp)
  • It is an old custom, especially amongst the warriors of less civilized humanoid tribes, to paint body and face before entering in battle.
• Some Enchanted Item (Erin D. Smale)
  • Greywand, a sword forged against the power of humanoids in general and orcs in particular.
• Deadly Wounds and Balanced Combat (Erin D. Smale)
  • This article offers some advice regarding what a critical hit system is supposed to do, what makes a critical hit system work within the OD&D game context, and finally, an actual critical hit system.
• The Bard: A Revitalized Class for the OD&D Game (Geoff Gander, Marco Dalmonte, and Carl Quaif)
  • This article presents the bard as a full character class for use in the D&D® game. It is based in part on the work of Bruce Heard, who presented the bard as a modification of the thief class in issue 177 of Dragon® magazine. Some of his original ideas have been incorporated into this document, and as such the authors thank and give credit to him appropriately.
• Luigi’s Symphony (Geoff Gander)
  • Luigi’s Symphony is not one, but five distinct songs – the opening, and four spell-songs that comprise the body of the symphony.
• Secondary Skills for OD&D (Mike Stewart)
  • This article provides a new system for skills, designed to fit into the present rules system of Basic/Expert D&D.

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