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I never played it, but it was a blast to read....

as I was an active writer for TSR's magazines back in the day, I (and scads of other people in the same situation) got both of these free from TSR, as they were looking for the freelancers to start writing stuff for the magazines ASAP. I can still remember looking through it and having mixed...

I'd always thought one of the big reasons that horror doesn't do so well in D&D is that a big part of horror is the idea 'this character could die a horrible death.' D&D players back in those days were pretty blase about that....

my group did too... these articles came out while my first D&D group was running, and it was great to have some official WoG deities....

I have a 2nd print one with the thank you. I can remember buying it mainly because my group was running in the 'folio' edition of the WoG, and there weren't any deities listed anywhere, so our PCs were worshiping a wide assortment of them out of the book. Not long after I got it though, EGG...

the sheer scope of it. At it's height in 2E days, PCs could go adventuring all the way from Kara Tur to Maztica, and end up in the pseudo Arabian Nights and Mongol ones along the way.

to be sure, the 'open sandbox' nature of it is appealing to many. As a newb DM way back in 1980, I remember preparing to run it and littering the wilderness map with lots of critters from the MM, mainly wild animal types since there were already so many humanoids and the like in the CoC...

printed adventures being scarce at the time, I remember our DM running us through the Aztec adventure in this one, although our PCs at the time weren't really high enough level to do it. We prevailed (barely), but mainly because the DM nerfed the godawful powerful cleric at the end...

B2 is rather notorious for it's lack of detail... I mean, the NPCs n the Keep don't even have names! It's like several other early modules in that it takes a lot of DM preparation to make use of it. That said, at the time, it was one of a handful of published modules out there, and we were...

so did I. One of the best books I own for the job is one of the otherwise execrable Conan collection of stories by assorted authors (Conan the Swordsman).... the stories are dreck, but there is a big index in the back that lists every name used in all of the stories by REH and others, and the...

I had a character named Falken, after the professor in War Games. And a cleric named Zamfir, after a musician who played the Pan flute and had ads on late night TV for CDs of his music.

it's been a loooooooong time since I read either, but weren't both the WoG and FR MCs kinda loaded with 'a handful of world specific critters, and lots of others that would fit in about anywhere'?

EGG's additions to the WoG (particularly the gods) were eagerly adopted by those of us who were gaming back in the day... our group used the WoG as it's game world, but there weren't any deities at the time, so our PCs were worshiping random gods out of the DDG book. Once these articles came...

I remember that, and that at Gencon that year, TSR had several huge boxes of corrected pages that they were giving out free to one and all...

I've never played 5E, so a question.... how hard is it to make an NPC based on the PC classes? For example, in 1E/2E it was rather easy to make an NPC fighter of a certain level with certain equipment to face off against the PCs. From what I see of 5E though, character creation is a lot longer...

my active D&D years spanned a decade (1980-1990), so 1E was the edition for most of it. I started when it was all still pretty new, but starting to explode in popularity, and gaming stuff was still pretty sparse, so homebrew was a big part of it. Nostalgia no doubt colors a large part of my...

just got back from seeing it. Not exactly a masterpiece, but definitely a lot of fun.

yeah, that part annoyed me too when I got the module way back when. I redrew a bunch of it for later use (which sadly, never happened), and did similar to what you did, had snakes, lizards, and scorpions replace the nonsensical wolves, sprites, bees, etc. (howinhell would those critters end up...

it's possible that there is some review bombing, but the ones I'm reading aren't 'official' reviews that amount to anything, just comments on Facebook on some of the D&D pages I hang out on....

yes, the negative comments were all like "Just got back from the movie and I hated it!!" Again though, it's only about a quarter of them....