Recent content by David Howery

Into the Fire, #1. One of the best dragon centered adventures ever. Ancient Blood, #20. Frost Giant ghost wants revenge. Neat. Kingdom of the Ghouls #70. Epic Underdark adventure.

the one transfer I noticed early on was that the idea of 'priests healing people' got ported into the decidedly non-fantasy "Age of Empires" computer game....

I never really was affected any by the Satanic Panic, even living in a tiny MT town full of rural Christian types. Mostly, people regarded D&D as 'that nerd thing' and didn't bother much about it. No one was the least bit surprised that I was into it....

like most issues around this time, this one was one that was 'fun to read', but not 'used any of the info presented'. Mainly because I was in between gaming groups at the time....

that's been a complaint about the module since the Basic version came out back in 1980 or so. It's a slugfest and runs along the lines of 'fight/retreat to the Keep to heal up/fight some more." And yet, there's been versions of this in about every edition from Basic to 5E. Something about the...

okay, I'll take your word for it, as I have nil experience with 5e. It is a neat set, though, the maps are great.

"absolutely nothin', say it again...." quote from all PCs who aren't clerics or paladins...

just for the heck of it, ordered this and got it yesterday. The maps are neat, the Keep is much better detailed, and the wilderness encounters about the same. But my first thought on reading through the Caves was.... 'Man, they really nerfed these down." I mean, the bugbears and gnolls went...

heh. I can remember it being mentioned in the Game Wizards book (I think) about how one of Dave Arneson's 'poke in the eye to TSR' projects after leaving them was an index/guide to all the OD&D books (at the time), which was published, but due to the Holme's set and AD&D, soon became useless...

from what I read about OD&D, the main problem with it was that it was hard to learn unless you're taught by someone who already learned the game. IIRC, the Holmes boxed set was designed to fix that.

when I started back in 1980, the choices were 1E, Basic (of which there was only the Holmes set, which ran only to level 3), and OD&D (which was getting harder and harder to find). So, 1E was the best choice (for me at least)....

wow, that is rather neat looking. It's kinda amusing that B2, in spite of all the criticism about the problem of 'so many critters in such a small space', has been revamped quite a few times. Did it get updated for 3E and/or 4E?

so, not knowing anything about this new edition or the stuff for it... is this adventure another retooling of the old B2 module?

weirdly enough, after being plastered all over my FB feed for a day, he's disappeared from it. If he turns back up, I'll do the 'hide all posts' thing...

mine too. Is there a counterspell?