Month: October 2021

The number of blows struck per melee round is a fascinating and crucial topic for D&D combat. CHAINMAIL’s Man-to-Man Combat rules and the infamous re-rendering of the same in Holmes Basic D&D immediately come to mind. Although the Holmes version is more accessible, it is also more fraught. As published, the Holmes Basic D&D rulebook… Continue reading Blows per Round

Holmes’ second combat example is one of the few detailed explanations of early D&D combat; that it was edited by Gygax also lends it a certain gravitas. That said, there are two main challenges with this example: Movement rates, The rate of bow fire. In this post, I’ll discuss movement rates. In a follow-up post,… Continue reading Movement in Combat