OD&D OD&D Now In PDF on DnDClassics

mach1.9pants

Hero

• Jan 27, 2016

• #1

Yesterday, OD&D Dungeons & Dragons Original Edition was added to WotC's D&D Classics storefront in PDF format. By Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, this 1974 classic was released as a 2013 Collector's Edition. You can pick it up for $9.99 for 122 pages (three books) of old-school goodness. It's hard to exaggerate the importance of the OD&D rules not just to D&D, but to the roleplaying game hobby as a whole - it was the first tabletop roleplaying game.

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The download package includes four PDFs - Book I: Men & Magic; Book II: Monsters & Treasure; and Book III: The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures; plus a PDF containing 20 pages of reference sheets. I'd go into more detail on the history of this edition, but the product page on D&D Classics contains a very in-depth summary by Shannon Appelcline which more than thoroughly does the job! If you're at all interested in the history of the hobby, or in old-school gaming, you owe it to yourself to pick this up.

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mach1.9pants

Hero

• Jan 26, 2016

• #3

Downloading now, it's being realllllly reeeeeeally slow. 20 mins! But on the ODD74 forum someone mentioned it was just Books 1-3, so the others are due out soon, I hope!

The preview shows the WotC logo instead of Copyright TSR on page 2, so I guess it is the premium reprint. The preview doesn't show the cover page.

People who have previously purchased it are getting access again, too

 

JeffB

Legend

• Jan 26, 2016

• #4

Sqn Cdr Flashheart said:

Downloading now, it's being realllllly reeeeeeally slow. 20 mins! But on the ODD74 forum someone mentioned it was just Books 1-3, so the others are due out soon, I hope!

The preview shows the WotC logo instead of Copyright TSR on page 2, so I guess it is the premium reprint. The preview doesn't show the cover page.

People who have previously purchased it are getting access again, too

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Disappointed, but thanks for the info. Much appreciated.

 

mach1.9pants

Hero

• Jan 26, 2016

• #5

I also didn't read the description lol

First published in January 1974, the original edition rules of Dungeons & Dragons would go on to see six different printings. This edition is for the Original Collector's Edition released By Wizards of the Coast in 2013, which was itself a revision of the 6th and final printing, the "Original Collector’s Edition" or white box edition.

 

Parmandur

Book-Friend

• Jan 27, 2016

• #6

Ya know, the premium reprint was a weeeee bit pricey, but this might be the right price...

 

darjr

I crit!

• Jan 27, 2016

• #7

Very cool

 

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Big J Money

Adventurer

• Jan 27, 2016

• #8

I splurged on the premium reprint because I've never gotten anything premium D&D before, and that era of D&D is probably the one I like most these days. Although technically I prefer the OSR variations of it.

 

Mark CMG

Creative Mountain Games

• Jan 27, 2016

• #9

Sqn Cdr Flashheart said:

Downloading now, it's being realllllly reeeeeeally slow. 20 mins!

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Oh, my, you *are* old school, aren't you?

I wonder why it takes so long?

 

mach1.9pants

Hero

• Jan 27, 2016

• #10

It did feel a little like being on dial up! It was a whole bunch of PDFs and I am all The way over The Pacific in NZ. The whole website was being slow, but it got there.