Littlest Brown Book With Clarifications And Additions

fom Gygax (early years only), Holmes, and Philotomy.

We'll stay minimal but just go a couple of steps further than Littlest Brown Book.

Also, let's convert all those inch measurements to feet.

If you'd like to contribute, have a look at the To Do list. You can also find me in the OSR Discord.

Current focus

Add bits from Philotomy's Musings

To do

• Split book into 3 (or 4) parts: (Player Book), Spellbooks, Referee Reference, Campaign Creation
• Only include house rules that are very close to OD&D as written. Rules that fill in gaps. Rules that one might easily imagine early referees using. Philotomy's Musings are generally suitable.
• Read through Holmes.
• Read through various Gygax articles.
• Have a look at Delta's rules.
• Find out if any of my own house rules or Idraluna's may be derived from/cited from an early source.
• Consider Smoldering Wizard's OD&D Elf.
• Consider Philotomy's Movement in Combat and 10 second combat round.
• Consider Holmes' exploration movement speed as a house rule (described by Philomy's Movement While Exploring)
• Anti-cleric reversed spells aren't listed
• Holmes features a reversal for Purify Food & Water (Contaminate Food & Water) on the Cleric List,
• Shields sundering

Complete

https://odd74.proboards.com/thread/11578/gygax-od-additions Philotomy's Musings (skipped Cantrips, Surprise, Movement in Combat, Initiative and Combat Sequence, Gaze Attacks, Class and Race)

Changelog

July 6

Philotomy's Turn Undead rulings. Philotomy's magical armor/shields bonus stacking. Philotomy's scroll creation. Philotomy's helmets Chance to drop item on surprise per Holmes. Holmes reaction roll. Holmes movement speeds, sorta. Beast of burden max loads from OD&D added.

July 5

• Removed Anti-Cleric level table. It's the same as the Cleric table and it wasn't in OD&D. Note: I should ask why it was included.
• Removed images that added pages to the total count. They might return later.
• Moved electrum and platinum from house rules to the exchange value paragraph.
• Removed some house rules that feel like unnecessarily big steps away from OD&D.
• Added my house rule to remove Wisdom and Charisma scores after generating derivative information.
• Moved level drain house rule to monster description section.
• Moved Gygax's 2005 and 2007 house rules into the main text.
• added Gygax's attack's from behind bonus of +2 from Gygax Clarifications https://odd74.proboards.com/thread/11578/gygax-od-additions
• added Gygax's monster saving throws
• added Gygax's table of Law and Chaos qualities.
• Added the fighter's multiple attacks back into the main text.

July 3

• changed spell, magic item, and monster names back to originals
• burning oil optional rule
• called shots optional rule
• critical hit = max damage
• two-handed weapon = roll 2d6 take higher
• doors open automatically for monsters unless held shut. this is from the original LBB but was missing from LittlestBB.
• Added basic stronghold rules from OD&D and a note to reference OD&D for specifics.
• added minimal infravision interpretation
• added halfling missile fire +1 and vanishing into the woods

July 2

• 10 second rounds (philotomy)
• Elves XP clarification
• removed emojis
• spelled out names of saves
• spelled out GP, SP, CP and renamed them gold pieces instead of gold coins, etc
• added rolling HD to character gen section. reroll 1s optional rule.
• noted that running out of hp = death. this was in the original LBB but was missing from LittlestBB
• optional - death at -[level]HP. healing while unconscious.
• optional rule: learning new spells requires source
• added ways to adjudicate based on ability scores, 1d6, or a coin.