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I believe you can find both books at Noble Knight Games for less than $30 each. Personally, I wouldn't bother with Blackmoor, I don't anyone who uses monks or assassins a lot, the hit location rules are a miss and the only other feature that's useful are rules, monsters & treasure for underwater...

Drawmij is the name of an old player character. His spells are still found in the Player's Handbook to this day. Spell his name backwards to see who the original player of that character was!

I assume the OD&D game is the one written about over at Dragonsfoot. When you DMed that AD&D game, did you go "by the book" or just have the books handy while making it up as you went? I like trying to go by the book, but the details (like age modifiers for starting PCs, weapon type vs. AC...

Sometimes you remind me a little too much of that mischeivious lil' imp in the red robe and long white hair from the cartoon. Yeah, you know of whom I speak:D

I think what my buddy Gary is saying is: when it comes to ANYTHING owned by WotC (including, but not limited to D&D, AD&D & Greyhawk) he'd just rather not risk the threat of the legal backlashing constantly hanging over his dear head. As stated before (many times and on many different forums)...

Gary, my girlfriend would like to start using miniatures in our games because she's so used to boardgames, but the scale always messes me up. In older versions of D&D, movement was rated in inches (1" = 10' underground for example) but ground scale is given as 1" equals 3 1/3' (making a 10'...

OD&D again! I changed my stance on "attacks per round equal Hit Dice" to mean "only when fighting against creatures with 1 HD or less". Less dice rolling and it actually seems to have been the norm on more carefully reading the old '75 FAQ. Anywho, I was just diving into a game of OD&D using...

This may be a foolish question but... Why "Col_Pladoh"?

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10192 Are we close? Quick question about the way you're currently running OD&D: Without concidering supplementary material, and after reading the FAQ from The Strategic Review; I tend to give every creature (PC, monster or otherwise) a number...

This isn't an attempt to highjack the thread at all, I merely wish to direct Gary's attention to another, similar, thread I started over at Dragonsfoot (like he's really got the time:confused: ): http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=161453#161453 Sorry for the intrusion, please...

Three questions, each spaced a bit so as not to strain the brain too much... I like your pronounciation of Oerth, sounds like Bugs Bunny. What about a couple of other commonly confusing names: Oeridian and Flanaess? I usually pronounced them er-RIDI-an and flan-ESS, how's about you? What's...

OH-erth, orth, erth or oith? How do you usually pronounce many Greyhawk terms? I usually concider the "O" to be silent (Oeridian being pronounced er-RID-eean). But then, I didn't create the world, I just like to use it;)

Not to interupt the Colonel, but my reading of the original booklets indicated that "D&D" was to be a general RPG (hence the inclusion of John Carter of Mars). Fantasy was just a fun starting point before referees started going nuts with the flying saucers and WWII squads, etc.. Do correct me if...

Actually, what I was really thinking of was the products you use in certain situations, not so much the rules themselves. For example: When playing OD&D, do you stick with the original set with maybe the Greyhawk supplement (or all the supplements) or go with a later set (like Moldvay's Basic or...

I've always been curious as to how much material Gary uses in his D&D games (both original and Advanced). Would he stick with the original stuff, like the lil' brown/white box and Greyhawk supplement for OD&D and just the first few hardcovers for AD&D; or does he go all out and use the Rules...

Started with Moldvay/Cook in '82, when I was in Junior High. The first games I ever owned were the Mentzer D&D sets and Star Frontiers. When I finally got the AD&D books, I was bummed because the covers didn't look like everyone elses (the orange-spines had started then).

Valerius the fighter, Grimslade (cool name) the magic-user, Saren the cleric/chick, and a hapless elf whose name I always forget! Also mentioned was Oakthorn (a shapeshifter) and Grimslade's mentor, whose name also escapes me.

From Mentzer's Basic D&D rules: Fleetwood (fighter) Felonious (magic-user) Greegan (thief) Clerion (cleric) Belrain (elf) Rolf (dwarf) Touchberry (halfling) Don't forget all the playtest/tournement characters often included with modules series like Aerie of the Slavelords, Against the Giants...

Gary, I have a few multi-part questions, I'm sure you've anwsered them all in the past, but I'm new around here and my curiosity keeps me up at night. I think these threads are a great idea and that you're being very generous at keeping up with them. Thanks for keeping in touch with all your...

Here I am! I've been posting at Dragonsfoot for some time and even stuck my face in the Grognard's Tavern here and there. The v.3.5 stance and slow loading times have kept me from here for a while, but finding out about the Gary Gygax Q&A threads means I'm on board officially. Rejoice! I have...