Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,

Steal a little and they'll put you in jail, steal a lot and they'll make you king.

Bob Dylan

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

Rabindranath Tagore

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

Billy Joel

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Fighters can use any weapon and wear any kind of armor. As they advance in experience they increase their “hit dice” making them harder to kill.

For Holmes Basic (and Chaoses Limb) all character generation rules can fit on one side of a single sheet of paper--and that's including gear.

Simplicity.

“When you’re short of everything but the enemy, you are in combat.”

The fourth rail of fantasy adventure gaming

My patreon post on spell books: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cl-spellbook-29824701

Of the 3 (4?) pillars of fantasy adventure gaming one of the broadest is how characters interact with their environment.  For OD&D this default environment is the Dungeon.

Rules from Holmes Basic that I left out of Chaoses Limb