Recent content by northrundicandus

And Greg Stafford. Man - that's a cold move. The original creators should be acknowledged in the book.

I don't find it odd at all. If customers want the older books - print 'em! WotC/Hasbro is sitting on a mountain of older intellectual property, and they aren't doing much with it. If there's a demand for straight-up reprints of older material, do it!

My dungeons entertain players in my First Edition campaign every week. As I get older, the less time I have for gaming B.S. The dungeon gets to the essence of D&D - thus that is where most of our limited game time is spent.

That would be awesome. A limited edition printing of the original brown booklets would be a fine item for Hasbro to sell. While they are at it they should listen to bones_mccoy too and reprint the original AD&D hardbacks. It would be a way to get some money from people like me.

I grew tired of 3E, and decided to start running 1st Edition again. And I'm having a blast running the games and designing the adventures. The ratio of fun to work is much more favorable with 1st Edition than 3.x - at least for me.

Random encounters are a good test of DM skill. I've had campaigns take on all new directions thanks to me having to figure out why a certain creature was in a certain place due to a random roll. I think they add a lot to a game. You can also go nuts with them and your games end up going nowhere.

Stupid players are not too productive for campaigns either. :uhoh: :heh:

If DM's keep pulling their punches players will never learn. Player skill is very important!

If it makes Hasbro money, why not? They've released collector's editions of Monopoly and other board games, with the older rules and pieces. Why not D&D and AD&D?

Nay - In honor of the 30th anniversary celebration they should reprint all the good stuff from yesteryear: * A Trampier cover Players Handbook * A Sutherland cover DMG * The original Greyhawk folio * The DCS cover MM * The original D&D boxed set I'd buy multiple copies as long as they were...

Without Gary Gygax we would not be discussing this. Thus he gets my vote! :)

We sit down with our 1st Edition books and play! I'm starting a new 1ed campaign soon as a matter of fact.

It may not have arrived in print until the DSG, but every DM I knew from 1980 onward used 'em. One of those unwritten rules that every referee seemed to use.

Three Hearts was published in 1953. Elric's first appearance was in 1961. In Michael Moorcock's intro to Elric: Song of the Black Sword he mentions that the Elric stories began to take form in the mid-50's.

I second reading Moorcock. That's where a lot of the inspiration for Law and Chaos came from. Plus you'll learn how to roleplay Demons Lords and Devilish Princes correctly :-)