Gorgon’s Grimoire

Damsels, Adventurers, and Dragons Multi-Class Errata

Date Added: 2026-05-19

Original Substack Date: March 3, 2026

Source: Public Gorgon’s Grimoire Substack errata notice.

Summary: Addresses the omitted complete list of permitted multi-class combinations in the original Multi-Class rules section.

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Deck of Unbridled Destiny Errata

Date Added: 2026-05-19

Original Substack Date: January 26, 2026

Source: Public Gorgon’s Grimoire Substack errata notice.

Summary: Lists formal errata entries for the Deck of Unbridled Destiny.

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Elven Age Fix

Date Added: 2026-05-19

Book Version / Printing: First Printing

Section: Races / Elven Age

Corrected Text / Ruling: The elven maximum age table, as written, produces implausible results, allowing elves to reach ages in excess of 140,000 years. This exceeds the intended scale of the setting and creates mechanical and historical inconsistencies. To correct this, all elves instead determine maximum age as 4d100 + 800 years.

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Proficiencies Update

Date Added: 2026-05-19

Book Version / Printing: First Printing

Section: Proficiencies / Nonweapon Proficiencies

In AD&D 2E, the original nonweapon proficiency system was bolted onto a framework that still assumed most routine, survival-critical, and professional actions would be resolved through broad ability score adjudication. Classes implied backgrounds, but those backgrounds were rarely expressed mechanically. As a result, characters frequently appeared under-skilled on paper despite possessing years of implied training, apprenticeship, or lived experience. This problem was not merely one of interpretation — it was structural.

The original system granted too few proficiency slots to represent even a minimally competent adult, let alone a trained professional or seasoned adventurer. Fighters, for example, could easily enter play unable to ride, swim, forage, navigate, or maintain equipment without penalties, despite those skills being narratively essential to the class. Wizards and priests suffered similarly, often forced to choose between basic literacy, scholarly knowledge, or survival skills — choices that made characters feel artificially incompetent rather than specialized.

Because slot availability was so limited, tables routinely ignored the system outright, defaulted back to ad hoc ability checks, or quietly waived requirements when they became inconvenient. In practice, this meant that nonweapon proficiencies existed in an unstable middle ground: too punitive to enforce strictly, yet too under-supported to function as a complete system. The result was inconsistency, table friction, and a growing gap between narrative expectation and mechanical reality. In Damsels, Adventurers, and Dragons, this issue is addressed directly.

Nonweapon proficiencies are mandatory and define what a character is formally trained to do. They are no longer optional flavor or an afterthought layered on top of ability scores. Any attempt to perform a task without the appropriate proficiency is subject to the standard –5 unskilled penalty, making gaps in training mechanically meaningful rather than abstract or hand-waved.

To ensure that characters begin play as competent, functional individuals — rather than artificially constrained caricatures — the proficiency slot corrections are presented in the updated rulebook table below:

Table 19 Proficiency Slots

Group	Starting Nonweapon Proficiency Slots	New NWP Slot Gain
Warrior	14	1 every 3 levels
Rogue	15	1 every 2 levels
Priest	16	1 every 2 levels
Wizard	16	1 every 2 levels

These slots represent foundational education, occupational training, cultural knowledge, and lived competence acquired prior to adventuring. They are not exceptional talents; they are the baseline skills required to survive, travel, interact socially, and perform professional duties without constant penalties or narrative excuses.

This adjustment allows the proficiency system to finally do the job it was always meant to do: define capability clearly, reward specialization meaningfully, and remove the need for constant ability-score improvisation. Characters are neither omnipotent nor helpless — they are trained where they should be trained, and untrained where that absence has real consequences. All other nonweapon proficiency rules, advancement costs, and unskilled penalties remain unchanged.

Wizards, Bards, and Priests all receive Reading/Writing for free due to literacy being integral to their class. Also, all races receive their modern racial language for free to avoid confusion with the original rules.

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Revised Nonweapon Proficiency Slot Gain

Date Added: 2026-05-19

Book Version / Printing: First Printing

Section: Proficiencies / Nonweapon Proficiency Advancement

The original rate of nonweapon proficiency advancement in Damsels, Adventurers, and Dragons is too slow to reflect meaningful growth over the course of play. Characters live through adventures, hardship, travel, training, and long experience in the world, and their broader practical abilities should expand at a pace that reflects that development.

Replace the standard nonweapon proficiency slot gain progression with the following:

Revised Nonweapon Proficiency Slot Gain

Class Group	New Nonweapon Proficiency Slot Gain
Warrior	1 every 3 levels
Rogue	1 every 2 levels
Priest	1 every 2 levels
Wizard	1 every 2 levels

These slots are gained at every level evenly divisible by the class group’s listed progression, using the normal rules for selecting and learning nonweapon proficiencies.

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