Recent content by David Howery

enjoy your retirement, Chris.

I don't think I ever used any of the info from them, but Greenwood's articles on the Nine Hells were great reading....

from what I remember about buying D&D stuff in the 90s, most of it was through mail order; can't remember the name of the company, but I could call them with product numbers and they'd send it. TSR/Dragon magazine was helpful with this, as they had an 'upcoming products' list every issue with...

EGG talked in later issues about his idea for D&D 2E... it would have been vastly different from the one we got, with everything from 1E, OA, and UA blended in together.

2E was a pretty good edition, although I didn't care for a lot of the cosmetic changes done to it. But I didn't get to game in it for long before my job/life forced me out of the gaming life, just a couple of years. Most of my gaming years were spent in 1E. Still, I'll always remember 2E for...

are you a grognard if you used to play way back in the old days and don't anymore but hang around on here out of nostalgia about those good old days, but don't really care that lotsa people are playing new versions that aren't really anything like the ones you played?

I got the set way back in 1980, my first introduction to D&D/RPGs, although I didn't do much with it after finding out about AD&D. Still have the rulebook, but alas, everything else in it crumbled away. Except the chits, which I used once and tossed in the trash soon after.... went out and...

love the cover on this one, but I don't think I made use of any of the D&D stuff inside, not even the monsters.

I'm in charge of it? Well, I'm sure you will all find other hobbies to indulge in...

most of it.... I was a grownup when it came out, had a job, etc, so I wasn't always able to see it first run, but I did see the entire series (I think) eventually as they did reruns...

From what I remember back in the day, most of us just ignored everything about falling damage being unrealistic and just stuck with the RAW for it. The main thing I remember about this issue was how much of a hoot it was reading the Elefant Hunt game... I think I still have that issue with the...

Isn't Perrenland known for it's pikemen?

I ran a lot of outdoor adventures back in the day, but yeah, agree with you. I always kept it a lot simpler.

The last time I ran it, I think I had a band of orcs (allied to those in B2, which the PCs went into later) trying to loot the place and setting off some of the traps in the place, as well as the bodies of another unfortunate adventuring band who were unlucky in encountering the orcs. The upper...

The familiar article was one that I noticed, since I had done something similar a few years before it appeared... in my last tour as a DM in college, I had to deal with a mage PC who got a special familiar that didn't really fit him, so I created some new ones better suited for both good and...