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At the last LGGC I ran three sessions of LA adventures for around 20 different gamers. Damned if i can remember what I ran at Winterdark, but it would be no problem to do an OD&D dungeon crawl as I did at this GneCon.
Well, Gary, if you're planning to run some OD&D I'm sure we could drum up some players. If you'd also like the chance to play some OD&D, I'm sure we could arrange that too
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Allan Grohe
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The missus and I attended the Sunday afternoon LA 'crawl and that was a lot of fun - 'twas I who had the cheese quirk!
Hope we get in to some OD&D next year.
-Bill S.
Yuppers Bill, I recognize yout nic.
As a sometime turophile--currently with a refrigerator drawer filled with many fine imported and domestic aged cheese varieties, including some of goats' and sheeps' milk sort--the canned goop is anathema...unless shot into those little baked cones and eaten in quantiry whilest drinking ordinary beer
Well, Gary, if you're planning to run some OD&D I'm sure we could drum up some players. If you'd also like the chance to play some OD&D, I'm sure we could arrange that too
Parenthetically, photostat copies of the manuscript rules were made, and when the commercial game was published, fans not willing or financially unable to expend the princely sum of $10 for the product did likewise, copying the material on school (mainly college/university) machines. We were well aware of this, and many gamers who had spent their hard-earned money to buy the game were more irate than we were. In all, though, the 'pirate' material was more helpful that not. Many new fans were made by DMs who were using such copies to run their games. - Gary Gygax
As a sometime turophile--currently with a refrigerator drawer filled with many fine imported and domestic aged cheese varieties, including some of goats' and sheeps' milk sort--the canned goop is anathema...unless shot into those little baked cones and eaten in quantiry whilest drinking ordinary beer
Cheers,
Gary
Turophilia! Thank you.
I myself don't have that much cheese in my refrigerator -
At least I don't have that many things that started out as cheese...
Parenthetically, photostat copies of the manuscript rules were made, and when the commercial game was published, fans not willing or financially unable to expend the princely sum of $10 for the product did likewise, copying the material on school (mainly college/university) machines. We were well aware of this, and many gamers who had spent their hard-earned money to buy the game were more irate than we were. In all, though, the 'pirate' material was more helpful that not. Many new fans were made by DMs who were using such copies to run their games. - Gary Gygax
I would find it an honor for my PC to gracefully die...ah, I mean play, alongside Allan's and Bill's, (that is, if I was invited, of course) if that would please Gary to have a trifecta PC kill count!
As to the map, Hypersmurf, Thanks for posting. Is it me or is the text blurry? Maybe it is my resolution.
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I would find it an honor for my PC to gracefully die...ah, I mean play, alongside Allan's and Bill's, (that is, if I was invited, of course) if that would please Gary to have a trifecta PC kill count!
As to the map, Hypersmurf, Thanks for posting. Is it me or is the text blurry? Maybe it is my resolution.
Parenthetically, photostat copies of the manuscript rules were made, and when the commercial game was published, fans not willing or financially unable to expend the princely sum of $10 for the product did likewise, copying the material on school (mainly college/university) machines. We were well aware of this, and many gamers who had spent their hard-earned money to buy the game were more irate than we were. In all, though, the 'pirate' material was more helpful that not. Many new fans were made by DMs who were using such copies to run their games. - Gary Gygax
I forsee a party of 20 or so...shades of DMing in my basement back in 1973-4. I'll ask son Alex to assist with the monster attacks, as he loves to be on the delivery end of slings and arrows. Back to character sheets done on 3c5 index cards for the lot of you!
I forsee a party of 20 or so...shades of DMing in my basement back in 1973-4. I'll ask son Alex to assist with the monster attacks, as he loves to be on the delivery end of slings and arrows. Back to character sheets done on 3c5 index cards for the lot of you!
Gary
Talk about ambiance! A 3x5 character sheet! I am glad to know I am not the only to use this method.
__________________ Looking for South NJ, (Burl. Co. area) gamers, possibly for some 1974 OD&D.
I am sure dungeondelver meant to say "I call dwarf fighting man!" In the 1981+ version, a dwarf is a dwarf and fighter is a fighter. In the coveted 1974 3-book edition, a dwarf can only be a fighter, eh...fighting man... and can only advance to 6th level. Supplement I and beyond made some other changes, though, (dwarves could actually be paladins if you can believe it. )
__________________ Looking for South NJ, (Burl. Co. area) gamers, possibly for some 1974 OD&D.
I am sure dungeondelver meant to say "I call dwarf fighting man!" In the 1981+ version, a dwarf is a dwarf and fighter is a fighter. In the coveted 1974 3-book edition, a dwarf can only be a fighter, eh...fighting man... and can only advance to 6th level. Supplement I and beyond made some other changes, though, (dwarves could actually be paladins if you can believe it. )
Hmph. I just figured we'd be using SUPPLEMENT I: GREYHAWK where dwarves can be thieves!
Parenthetically, photostat copies of the manuscript rules were made, and when the commercial game was published, fans not willing or financially unable to expend the princely sum of $10 for the product did likewise, copying the material on school (mainly college/university) machines. We were well aware of this, and many gamers who had spent their hard-earned money to buy the game were more irate than we were. In all, though, the 'pirate' material was more helpful that not. Many new fans were made by DMs who were using such copies to run their games. - Gary Gygax
If you're going to play pure OD&D, don't limit your racial choices to dwarf, elf, hobbit . . . ask Gary if you can play a dragon or goblin or lizard man or some such, as suggested in the rules themselves.
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From my perspective wanting less in the way of rules constraints comes from being a veteran Game Master who feels confident that more good material comes from imagination and player interaction with the environment than from textbook rules material.
more words of wisdom:
Rashness and foolhardiness are harbingers of death, as is timidity, in such adventure setting.
Those that complain about real challenges might be better off playing Candyland with their little sister
First and foremost, munchkinism arose as a contemporary of the OD&D game. Nothing in the rules of that or any other version of the game was needed to make it flourish.
There is no relationship between 3E and original D&D, or OAD&D for that matter. Different games, style, and spirit.
[E]xperience has taught me that everyone has their own gaming preferences, and it is not a matter of "good" or "bad" in all, save in light of one's own preferences.
Talk about ambiance! A 3x5 character sheet! I am glad to know I am not the only to use this method.
you should have been in one of the sessions i ran at Gen Con.
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