That's why they should bring back the old 0-9 d20s! My first one was like this, and we just colored half the numbers red and that meant "add 10." 😂

or even a hilarious joke. Only stipulation was they had to write a brief summary of "why." I would read these out anonymously while we tallied up the XP. Great feedback mechanism for the other Players, and a window into what everyone was enjoying! I have **boxes** of index cards like this:

Heh, I ended up making a Basic styled Alchemist loosely based on that one for a fellow Ref in distress:

Like a "Heat" Mechanic? I think you could do this in a way by structuring Encounter Tables. Put some ominous signs lower down, but the "Big thing" up high. Then, apply a modifier to the rolls the longer you spend there/each visit. Placing it above the "upper bound" means it won't show up at first.

Add in the Classic Dungeons & Dragons Game. IIRC, there are some *slight* differences from the Denning Black Box.

Sometimes more! 😅

Always post Harpies!

The shelf is right behind me...calling to me 😅

He did the cover for this unusual record as well:

One must wonder what they use it for 😅

Hear hear!

I'm more a 2d6 Morale Check Referee (because I like how this resembles Reaction Rolls), but I did put together a little "scratch table" for some other options on Failure just to keep things "more interesting"

Makes me immediately think of 1958's The 7th Voyage of Sinbad Classic Harryhausen Dynamation!

There are *subtle* changes in the D&D ones that I've thought far too much about. Instead of "Friendly" in Holmes Basic...Monsters might end up "Enthusiastic, volunteers help!" Which adds a completely different dimension:

The "Nested" one in BECMI is always fun, it creates a kind of *decision* tree/automated Monster Response over time which I always felt was interesting, because of the weight it applies to those "secondary" rolls: (Triangular Distribution is important with these for several reasons though)

Heh, I think I used a shot of *this exact one* a while back for a Magic Item I whipped together:

The one in my Sheridan Douglas just looks completely over it:

I've always been a big fan of attacking that Character Sheet: 😅

There was a Fantasy Counterpart as well!

The ended up featuring in one of my Wilderness Hexes:

B/X characterizes them as a 12 HD Air Elemental, and OSE thoughtfully provides a Stat Block. Always found the Morale of 10 quite funny though! Imagine a Tornado fleeing Combat!

Still have one for the "bag of shame" for if/when Players forget their dice:

(I do far too much of my creative thinking by fires)

Here's a few tables I whipped up to help another Referee that was struggling with "Repeat" results on those when using this method:

At Last by Ella plays softly in the background: (sorry @inplacesdeep.bsky.social but it was my birthday present!)

Results definitely pass the "appearance test" for me and I like that it's pretty simple to just paste it in and quickly style things:

Hackmaster includes a little "Yield" section in it's Bestiary for this. Here's what it has to say about Halflings 😮

They make them! A few different kinds (truncated polyhedrals are more popular now, but I've always been partial to the old colorful game science ones)

Palladium Fantasy from the top rope!

It's totally sweet. One of my favorite stories from AD&D was a DISCOVERY! result on the Potion Miscibility Chart. Ended up with a Fighter that could *Speak with Animals* Permanently!