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Kits were one way getting back some of the classes lost from 1E. Missing the samurai from OA? There was a kit for it. Barbarian? Cavalier? Acrobat? Kits could do them all.

never did a whole campaign, but I did do a couple of one shot Viking ones; one, where they went to England and fought the Black Worm of the Barrow to get some magical doodad, and another where they went to Long Island in pursuit of a renegade who had taken refuge with a tribe of Skraelings led...

way way back in the early days of D&D, when I didn't really know anything about the game other than "hey, these miniatures look pretty neat", I bought the old 'blue book' set to find out what it was all about, and ran in a couple of sessions. Not much later, I figured out that there was an AD&D...

okay, maybe it's just me, but I always rather liked the danger of being a low level PC in 1E/2E... you had to be sneaky and thoughtful and really plan things out... and sometimes you just bit the dust through bad luck. Making it up to levels 4 and beyond was a real accomplishment...

My whole gaming career was in 1E and 2E... 2E was a perfectly fine set of rules... with some tweaking. I was annoyed at some of the things cut from 1E, so I worked out having monks and barbarians into the game, left demons and devils and all the other fiends as is with no name changes, etc...

I used the "heart of darkness" plot too, although it was more 'insane ex-paladin takes over a band of lizardmen and does bad things' Other movies: Zulu, with goblins standing in for the Zulus Fire and Ice, with the PCs accidentally time traveling back to the Stone Age of Faerun in pursuit of an...

during my 2E gaming days, I was the DM nearly all the time, and the only real 'house rule' I can recall at the moment was 'max hp at 1st level', which seemed to be pretty common. I did keep the 1E barbarian and monk around for a few adventures, but as NPCs only...

back when I first started playing in 1E days, my group had a general problem of 'nobody wanted to play the cleric'. So we usually had NPC clerics in the party, and services available in cities... sometimes. It depended a lot on the city. The big ones were generally considered to have clerics...

have to go with 'sometimes'. Most of my GM campaigns were set in the WoG; I made good use of everything they put out at first, but ignored everything to do with the Greyhawk Wars...

I got into D&D about 1980, when it was all pretty new, and played in campaigns off and on until 2E came out. I remember it fondly, as it was something new and shiny and imaginative. But... yeah, it had problems. Not organized all that well, loads of rules that were often ignored, some...

IIRC, you can get around Acererak by... ignoring him. I don't think the whole 'skull draining your soul' thing happens unless someone touches it. Don't touch it, it stays put. Then there is the 'dust turning into a ghost' thing, but again, if you ignore it, it doesn't do anything. Of course...

"Isle of the Ape" was also written as a 'teach humility to high level PCs' adventure. It didn't have quite so many 'save or die/choose correctly or die' moments as ToH though...

looking at the 5E PHB, I see that they upped the damage from 1-3 to 1-6. Add that in with 5Es notorious skills, feats, and whatnot, and I begin to see the problem...

in 2E, hand crossbows cost 300 gp, a rather big amount to pay for that tiny amount of damage... I had a character who used one in 1E days, before there were any official rules for them other than the notes on the Drow in the GDQ modules... I think we decided it would cost the same as a light...

uh... are hand crossbows way more lethal in later editions or something? In 1E/2E, they weren't much, and making a +2 version wouldn't disrupt a campaign at all. in 2E, they did a whopping 1-3/1-2 damage and could fire once per round.

I've done #1 several times; although with not-intelligent apes (based it loosely on Michael Chrichton's 'Congo" novel). And with evil dwarves, a mad elephant-ish demi-god, prehistoric lizard archmages, dimensionally lost Romans, and other assorted oddities. I was always a sucker for 'lost city...

B4 is interesting in that you can use either just half of it, or use it for a whole underground campaign. The top half of the buried pyramid is detailed and interesting and can be an adventure by itself. Or you can use the bottom half (which isn't detailed all that well, but hey) and keep the...

I've seen just about every version of King Solomon's Mines (including the 1937 version), and all of them are annoying in one way... they all leave out the most interesting part of the novel: the civil war in the native kingdom. Really, how do you adopt a novel to a movie and leave out the most...

maybe, but explain Mameena :P

and yet, he managed to marry two beautiful women and was loved by another....