Recent content by David Howery

my reason for 'buying the boxed set and never playing it' was 'wandered into a toy store in the mall in 1980, saw a really cool display of gaming minis, figured out they were for a game called Dungeons and Dragons, saw the boxed set (Holmes version) moments later, bought it... then later figured...

when it comes to 'articles we used the most', I have to look way back in the earlier days, when EGG was publishing the deities of Greyhawk... before the folio set, there wasn't anything official, so we just picked random gods out of the Deities book (including some of the gnarly Cthulhu ones...

well, some group somewhere out there in the world might have played 1e RAW. But every group I ever was in had a lot of 'rules not used', house rules, etc.

or even better, don't have training costs at all. From what I remember of the final days of my last 1E campaign, I did away with them completely. 'Huge training costs' are one of the things that turn PCs into murder hobos...

from what I saw on groups who used the book, it was generally along the lines of 'ignore the new classes, races, comeliness; use the new magic items, spells, weapon specialization." Specialization seemed to give kind of an edge to beginning fighters, but at the same time, the DM could apply it...

yeah, the joke articles were all kind of groaners. I did like when later on, they used to print some of the really oddball letters they got from readers. EGG's new rules for demi-humans was another one that I used a lot later, when I got back into another gaming group.

EGG's "raising the demi human limits' was one I wasn't able to use at first since I was in between gaming groups when this issue came out. But I did look it up a couple of years later and write down the pertinent facts after I joined a new group as the DM. Ignored all the stuff about...

don't think I used any of the info in this issue, but I really liked the cover....

one of my DMs back in the day ran a short campaign set there, although we warped the setting and put the city in the WoG, somewhere in the south end of Nyrond, IIRC...

1E: the World of Greyhawk boxed set. Used it a lot 2E: Going to cheat here and say 'The Forgotten Realms'. Specifically, all those boxed sets that expanded the world in all directions. 3E: Well, the only non-core product I have for this one is the Nyambe book, and only because I contributed...

the official expansion of the druid's levels was nice, but.... I can't recall anyone ever in any of the groups I was in actually running a druid character. Which was odd, because when it was all so new back in 1E days and there wasn't a lot of official material, I saw people trying about...

so long as no one gets hurt, yeah, they're fine... but healing spells are needed the most at first level. Considering that B2 was the module that came in the box (and was likely the first adventure for a lot of groups), they must have run away a lot to heal up naturally (slowly) until leveling...

Do I remember correctly that clerics couldn't cast spells at first level? Which kinda made their whole purpose moot until they leveled up....

checks into the thread for the first time in weeks, and sees we're talking about... house prices hey, did I ever mention that I paid my mortgage off last year?

1E was most of my gaming experience, as my job/life forced me out of the hobby not long after 2E came out. That said... 1E was a bit of a grind in trying to figure out what some of the rules meant and deciding which official rules to keep and which optional rules to keep. A lot of groups I...