Expeditious Advance

Venturing forward into the realms of tabletop RPGs, one blog post at a time!

Friday, August 5, 2016

A Quick Note From GenCon: Ken St. Andre and Metamorphosis Alpha

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It's been an interesting couple of days at GenCon! On Thursday, I managed to speak to Ken St. Andre and ask him when they began to use...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Toward a History of RPG Mechanics, Part 12: The Fantasy Trip - Melee

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In the mid-1970s, Steve Jackson (the US one, not the UK one) was working for a game company called Metagaming. At the time, he was " pl...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Toward a History of RPG Mechanics, Part 11: The Perrin Conventions

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As discussed previously, Dungeons & Dragons  spread far beyond the wargaming audience that TSR initially aimed for. In Playing at the Wo...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Toward a History of RPG Mechanics, Part 10: Finishing Early D&D

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Last time, we discussed the Greyhawk supplement to Original D&D - the supplement that made OD&D into something that players of later...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Toward a History of RPG Mechanics, Part 9: Greyhawk

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When Dungeons & Dragons was first published, its creators had no idea that it was going to be as successful as it was. Indeed, Gygax di...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Toward a History of RPG Mechanics, Part 8: Boot Hill

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Boot Hill , TSR's third RPG (and second system, if we count Empire of the Petal Throne's system as a variant of D&D's) is ve...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

How Much Does a Dragon Eat?

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Obligatory Joke: As Much as it Wants! But seriously... the other day, my daughter and I were talking about dragons. She'd been re-read...
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