Solo Dungeon Crawler - Solo DnD Tutorials

The word “turn” does seem to be used interchangeably throughout the OD&D rule books to mean different things at different times, i.e. a turn of movement in a dungeon, a turn of combat and even a turn of movement in the wilderness. This doesn’t pose much of a problem in most cases, but one example of when it does is in determining a spells duration. Many of the spells listed in Men & Magic provide a duration in turns that the effects of the spell are supposed to last, but there is no clear indication of whether each of these turns represents a 10 minute turn or so many rounds/turns of combat. OD&D Spell Duration - How Long is a Turn? To help unravel this problem I think it’s necessary to look at what Gary Gygax says about time in both OD&D, AD&D and CHAINMAIL so we have a basis for comparison as all three works are detailed under the same author and contain several of the same spells. I think Gary expresses it quite clearly in the AD&D Player’s Handbook. “In adve...