Post by delta on Aug 3, 2020 18:47:56 GMT -6
In Dragon Magazine #70, Frank Mentzer wrote a page-long article on Falling Damage. It references the prior issue where Gary Gygax inserted a revision (?) to the AD&D falling damage rules in a sidebar, making it geometric-based, e.g.: 1d6 at 10', 3d6 at 20', 6d6 at 30', etc. Mentzer wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone who played or has close knowledge of Gary's games could comment on this. Did he do it this way in OD&D games? In AD&D games? Was there a known switchover-point? Did he run AD&D games?
Gary has always used a geometrically increasing system for falling damage in AD&D games; the trouble arose because that system simply never made it into the rule books.
I'm wondering if anyone who played or has close knowledge of Gary's games could comment on this. Did he do it this way in OD&D games? In AD&D games? Was there a known switchover-point? Did he run AD&D games?