I recently rolled up a few characters for an upcoming campaign. These characters will be used by a group of people who have played B/X D&D and 1ed AD&D in the past, but haven’t played much or at all in the last 20 years. The resulting ability scores were on the anemic side, and since …

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So, it seems that the ‘ability check’ in the context of AD&D evolved semi-officially in the early 80s. Someone pointed out to me that the first time it was referenced in a NON-ad-hoc way was in the module I3: Pharaoh, published in 1983. So I did a little research, and these early references to the …

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