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way back in my earliest D&D days, our guides to the gods was the D&D volume (I have the 'rare' one with the Cthulhu and Elric entries)...

I experimented a couple of times as a DM with allowing cleric PCs and NPCs to use whatever weapon(s) their deities used. The main...

'The 2E that might have been." It's fun to speculate on just what new stuff might have appeared.... especially on what the new...

I've read that some people cut up this issue to put the UA errata in their UA books. I couldn't bear to do that, my copy is still...

make a sacrifice to the Dark Ones and then roll 3D6 in order. No wait, it was 'roll 3d6 6 times and arrange as wanted'. Yeah, that was it.

That's 1E in a nutshell. :) I think our group just generally let the mages pick their starting spells because it was easier. It was...

that's not too bad, although you could still end up with a frustrated player who doesn't get anything he wanted. I don't recall all the...

that seems like it could really hamper starting mages who don't have really high INT. At the least, I'd think they should be able to...

hmm. Did people actually use the random % chance to know a spell rules? From what I remember back in the 1E gaming days, we pretty...

the 1E surprise rules always annoyed me, particularly when it involved "so, this guy can sneak up on a wild panther and has a better...

never ran this one, but it drew the attention of our group due to the Huntsman NPC class, sort of an anti-ranger. I'd thought about...

D&D had some growing pains from the old 3-book set to 1E, and some Chainmail carryovers, moving from a heavily 'miniatures on a gaming...

one thing I've idly wondered about but never looked to closely at.... did Dungeon have any short adventures that could be used to fill...

mounted archers, like blocks of pikemen, are one of those historical things that are great to read about, but not so translatable into a...

I had a pretty hefty collection of those from Moore and Young both....