Glossary
Shared language for original-edition play
Working definitions so your table argues about choices, not vocabulary.
3LBB vocabulary is thin on purpose. If your table uses a later clone's term for the same procedure, note the alias on your house sheet.
- Alternative combat system
- The D&D-native combat path beyond Chainmail.
- Underworld & wilderness
- The two classic adventure scales.
- Hit dice
- Creature toughness abstraction before modern HP bloat.
- Referee
- Original term for the facilitator role.
- Stocking tables
- Random room and hex contents.
- Name level
- When characters attract followers and strongholds.
- Golden age modules
- Early published sites that taught procedure by example.
- House campaign
- A continuous world with shared continuity.
Related desks in this neighborhood
Sibling desks cover AD&D, OSR frameworks, and later edition crates when you need a different dialect with the same sandbox heart.