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The original kickstarter was almost 80K I believe, with an unknown number of people already refunded and an unknown number applying for the refund now. so 60K to pay off no more than 80K worth of refunds.

2e had little rules things for more heroic fantasy than 1e did. Death at -10 instead of 0 (1e had the negatives only for if you hit zero exactly and lost one a round until dead at -10) Healing non-weapon proficiency in the core PH for potential faster healing. More xp for fighting monsters...

2e had the same henchmen stuff that I remember

I believe Neonchameleon was more saying that 1e says it is a game for dungeon crawling and has rules that suit dungeon crawling while 2e says it is a game for high adventure but has rules for gritty dungeon crawling that do not suit high adventure. The rules are mostly the same.

I really like the 4e world axis cosmology. There is just a couple of pages in the 4e PH and DMG to explain the whole thing and it is super evocative on its own but with cool deeper lore as well in other sources. The World with its own underdark, the Astral Sea above with floating god domains...

Pocket Grimoire Arcane 3.0 Crypt Lurker: Neroth's Embrace spell. Shadow Raven: Shadow ravens are undead birds created to serve as familiars and pets. Most are gifts from evil gods or manufactured by necromancers by some unknown ritual. Shadow Raven, Undead Bird, Shadowy Bird: ? Shadow Raven...

Plot & Poison 3.0 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Nonliving Creature: ? Undead Item: These follow the verminous item creation rules but use undead. Ghoul, Undead That Feasts on Flesh, Undead Wife: ? Evil Lich: ? Shadow: ? Wraith: Her Fury magic item. Drow: ? Her Fury Her Fury is a +2 keen unholy...

<Looks at his maps and minis> Well, I would say that depends a little on DM style.

The PDF is $130, so $117 with the discount. So about $30 each for four 200 page PDFs.

The races from OD&D and the 1e PH were Tolkien but the classes branched out from the beginning with the cleric (van Helsing/bishop Odo/bible miracles), and then paladin (Anderson), assassin (Lieber), monk (Remo Williams), druid, bard, and illusionist coming from different inspirations.

The long term AD&D campaigns I played in and ran after 2e came out usually used at least some stuff from both editions. Sometimes with a little basic material mixed in as well.

Here is a more direct one on the original texts in the 1e PH and DMg

I posted a bunch of the PH text in another thread

I mostly do modules, usually Paizo APs, so the TV episodic series with an ongoing theme and plot but a different main focus villain/story for each season works well with a lot of digression individual mini stories mixed in. Buffy is a decent rough example. My one shot modules are more like a...

Oathbound Domains of the Forge 3.0 Lector: It is not entirely known how a lector forms, though it is believed that a lector is created when an ordinary skeletal undead creature comes into contact with a powerful evil object. When such an event occurs, the skeleton is endowed with a powerful...

Part of that has been clear from near the beginning, licensing not for free but for royalties on sales. The current arrangement is for 10% royalties that go first to refunding the old kickstarter customers that JG has been saying they would pay off when they could. Whether there was also an...

A little know fact about the weapon vs. armor chart, the DMG says it is optional for a DM to use it or not. Discarding its use is not a house rule to 1e RAW but a RAW option. 1e DMG page 28 WEAPON TYPES, “TO HIT” ADJUSTMENT NOTE If you allow weapon type adjustments in your campaign please be...

Nyambe: African Adventures 3.0 Ndalawo, Shadow Leopard: Also known as a shadow leopard, the ndalawo (n-DAH-lahwoh) is a leopard that has been transformed into an undead shadow. Any humanoid reduced to a Strength score of 0 by a shadow leopard becomes a shadow under control of its killer within...