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TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Basic Rule Set Help with
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The Rules Cyclopedia is BECMI (well, BECM, immortals were separate) and the "All New" boxes in the 90s is just levels 1-5 of the RC. The... -
TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General Basic Rule Set Help with Like.
Pretty much the publication date. Any module after 83 is BECMI, which happened partway through the B and X module series which started...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General Basic Rule Set Help with Like.
B1 In Search of Adventure as well, originally for Holmes then later printings updated to B/X. The later 1981 printings with a full color...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General Basic Rule Set Help with Like.
Now that I think of it, it night be an interesting thought experiment to imagine what D&D would look like now if Holmes was as...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to TerraDave's post in the thread D&D General Basic Rule Set Help with Like.
I think they were supposed to run under any of those sets. And maybe also the publications that came later: the Rules Cyclopedia and the...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General Basic Rule Set Help with Like.
B/X and BECMI are compatible, though not identical. Holmes was a real outlier. My impression from reading histories is that Gygax was...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread D&D General Basic Rule Set Help with Like.
Sorry I can't add much to this except to point out Keep on the Borderlands was revised and changed editions. The original print was made...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT posted the thread D&D General Basic Rule Set Help in D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants.Hello all! From my understanding these are the different Basic Rule Sets: 1977-1981 Basic Rule Set by John Eric Holmes also nicknamed...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT replied to the thread D&D General Yggdrasil World Ash Tree and the Great Wheel Cosmology.awesome, thank you!
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TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to Sword of Spirit's post in the thread D&D General Yggdrasil World Ash Tree and the Great Wheel Cosmology with
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Seems to me like you're aware of the major ones (which means there are probably actually at least 2 other very big categories of... -
TheFantasyHistorianYT replied to the thread D&D General Yggdrasil World Ash Tree and the Great Wheel Cosmology.That was awesome thank you! When I did an overview of the other settings, Spelljammer and Planescape seemed cool, but it wasn't until I...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to Sword of Spirit's post in the thread D&D General Yggdrasil World Ash Tree and the Great Wheel Cosmology with Like.
If you want the most complete and precise way of doing it, you'll want to use the 2e Planescape sources. 2e cosmology (ie, Planescape)...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT replied to the thread D&D General Yggdrasil World Ash Tree and the Great Wheel Cosmology.Good question! I am looking for: What is it? How it functions? In the context of the older editions of the Great Wheel Cosmology...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General Yggdrasil World Ash Tree and the Great Wheel Cosmology with Like.
I've been wondering if the OP is looking for details about how ygg works specifically printed in old d&d targeted soucebooks where it...
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TheFantasyHistorianYT replied to the thread D&D General Yggdrasil World Ash Tree and the Great Wheel Cosmology.Thank you all for the comments, definitely helped clear a few things up!