Help me figure out what I bought

[jimmifett]

I fully plan on keeping and playing them.
I just need to know which rulesets are for which module and re-assemble the box sets as I think pieces are mixed together.

 

[Nellisir]

The Ravenloft and Myth Drannor boxsets may be mixed together a bit. I'll be taking pictures of the various pieces to try identify what goes where.

I have something else I can't identify that is a bunch of individual pages. Looks fairly recent print wise (90s?), and is 3-hole punched. I'll be taking pictures of that too to figure out what it is.

Myth Drannor came with several (typically 8, I think) pages of monsters punched for a binder. The earliest 2e Monstrous Compendiums were also loose-leaf & punched for a binder, and there were possibly a few DM's helper sort of accessories that might have been punched for a binder.

 

[Thanael]

For inventory of contents the best resource is the TSR Archive: TSR Archive


It looks like you got AD&D 1E mostly, and a few 2E items, which are very close/compatible ruleswise. You recognize 2E easily by the 2nd Edition in the AD&D logo. A few of the modules are BECMI (The B1 to B4 and X3). Those can be converted to AD&D easily though.

Most of the stuff is either set in Greyhawk or was later retrofitted into the Greyhawk setting. Many of the others are generic enough to fit. And you even have the classic World of Greyhawk Boxed Set (check this for completeness, are the maps there?)

I6 Ravenloft is a standalone classic 1E adventure. Ship of Horror can probably be fit into any campaign as it's an island setting. The Fraternity of Shadows did a 3E netbook in the Survey of the Nocturnal Sea which you could milk for additional content. And you have the classic Ravenloft blackbox (check if all contents are there, it had lots of stuff). So if you want you can delve deeper into Ravenloft. If you do, check out the Fraternity of Shadows site.

The 2 Encyclopedias list magical items from AD&D 2nd Edition and earlier. While they are interesting resources these two also might have some resale value.

Now to the Forgotten Realms stuff : Myth Drannor is essentially a mega-ruin/dungeon setting. Nightmare Keep seems to be a dungeon too.

Are you familiar with either of the AD&D rulesets? AD&D 1E has a good retro-clone/pdf-reference in OSRIC. But you could probably get the 1E DMG/PHB/UA/MM/MM2 from ebay for very cheap. They're worth a read. Personally i like to blend 1E and 2E AD&D.

I would recommend assembling this into a generic/Greyhawk old school campaign, using either 1E or 2E AD&D (or a blend of both). If you have Greyhawk specific questions check out www.canonfire.com.

 

[grodog]

Also, we should ping [MENTION=1613]grodog[/MENTION] and see what he has to say. If nothing else, he'll like hearing about someone getting a bargain.

Thanks, Mark: you caught my ear

It looks like you got AD&D 1E mostly, and a few 2E items, which are very close/compatible ruleswise.

Yep: some good stuff, but nothing super-valuable. For several of the modules, you'll want to examine them to check to see if all of the pages are present, since many of them had perforated pages for maps, tourney versions of maps, handouts, etc.

Are you familiar with either of the AD&D rulesets? AD&D 1E has a good retro-clone/pdf-reference in OSRIC. But you could probably get the 1E DMG/PHB/UA/MM/MM2 from ebay for very cheap. They're worth a read. Personally i like to blend 1E and 2E AD&D.

If you decide to buy the AD&D hardbacks, you'll probably end up spending more than buying the main OSRIC rulebook ($26 + shipping; email us for a shipping quote).

I would recommend assembling this into a generic/Greyhawk old school campaign, using either 1E or 2E AD&D (or a blend of both). If you have Greyhawk specific questions check out Canonfire! World of Greyhawk on the Web.

Or just ask us