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Heh. I wrote some of the ones for Dungeon that appear there. A couple aren't really where I placed them when I ran them way back in the day, but I wasn't very specific when I sent them to Dungeon sometimes....

I ran a one shot adventure once that was set in a valley run by tinker gnomes who had every variant of the giant space hamsters listed in that MC entry (yes, every one), plus a couple of my own creation. And there was also a monstrous evil flumph. But when it comes to 'monsters never used'...

uh... wow. Way back in my 1E days, PC permadeath happened. A lot. Especially at low levels. Of course, way back in those early days, people were still figuring out the game, and the idea of long story-driven campaign arcs wasn't really around much. The attitude, "I died? Well, that sucks...

it lives! This is one of the funniest threads in the history of the internet. It makes me laugh every time. I'm glad it gets resurrected every so often so new members can enjoy it...

one of the more obscure starting towns is Dagger Rock, from Dungeon #4, "Trouble at Grog's". It's nicely fleshed out, with some well described and interesting NPCs, a local mystery to solve, and a hidden treasure that no one knows about.

I've used a few small towns of my own creation at times to start a campaign, but my favorite was always the City of Greyhawk.... so much stuff there....

what omissions are you thinking of here? Granted, the folio and boxed set only covered a part of one continent (although there was that teasing pic of an expanded view of Oerik in both of them).... and we never really had any official expansion of the area until The Scarlet Brotherhood was...

even way back in 1E days, I don't recall this being a real issue. From what I remember, I never saw any female fighters, since they suffered from strength limits under 1E rules, but female thieves and mages weren't uncommon, since STR didn't really matter for them so much. I had a male mage PC...

uh... didn't some mammoth species live down in the temperate regions? I know that mastodons or some of their relatives lived all the way down into the tropics in the new world. say, are we getting a tad off topic here? :)

rangers, fighters, paladins, thieves... the group I was in abused the dual weapon wielding rules... a lot. I found that if you could get a Dex high enough to cancel the penalty in your main hand, the chances of whiffing in your off hand didn't matter so much... if you hit at all, it's bonus...

only played 1E and 2E, vote for 1E. Have some fond memories of playing rangers in those days, took one from 1st to 15th level. One of the big things in it's favor was that '2d8 hp at first level'... especially with the 'max hp at 1st level' house rule that so many of us used. While having...

one of the amusing things about the WoG is how it sorta reverses this trope. The two jungle areas are noted as being inhabited by Suloise, a white skinned/blonde race. Meanwhile up in the north, the dominant peoples tend to have olive or bronze skin....

okay, I'm curious as if you've read any of the sources in the OP. Because Nyambe definitely isn't that. Not sure of the others, haven't read any of them except the Chult one, and that is more 'lost world' than not Africa...

? not if you're using the actual kingdoms that existed there as a base. Wealthy, vast armies, shrewd traders, skilled craftsmen, and not a 'noble savage' in sight.

I can vaguely remember sketching out a fantasy not-Australia long ago in my DM days, but I had it more like 'Australia right when humans first arrived there'... less arid, lots of megafauna around... don't think I ever had the PCs visit though..

I don't think their home base is in the jungle, but it's definitely a semi-tropical place... kinda like Florida. They always reminded me of the Assassins of our history, due to their infiltration across the Flanaess and you never know when one of them will strike...

Nyambe did a decent job of doing that, although 'knights' as such don't really fit well. While you don't want a 'not Africa' that is nothing but a savage uncivilized hellhole, you can certainly borrow concepts from the real one and create fantasy counterparts of the real kingdoms that existed...

I tended to use bigger scales back in my DM days, more like 10 miles/hex. I used a mix of random encounters appropriate for the terrain/climate and placed encounters as well. Back in 1E days, it was a lot easier to draw up random encounter tables... there weren't so many monsters. When 2E...

they always struck me as 'Nazis mixed with the Assassins of Alamut"..

I was never fond of them inside the dungeon itself, but kept them for wilderness treks....