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1980, junior year of college. I'd heard about the game and picked up some stuff in the local toy store, but hadn't found a group. Sorta ran into one when I was doing laundry one night, and walked past one of the conference rooms on the floor, and saw some people setting up. I totally lucked...

maybe because it was one of the first non- D&D standard die you could buy? I bought one too way back in the day. Nowadays, of course, you can buy dice with all kinds of weird number/sides to them.... I had bunches of those back in the day, still have a few. I got rid of a bunch of the worn...

I didn't get any dice in the Holmes boxed set I bought back in 1980 (mine was one of the ones that had only chits), so I bought bunches of loose ones... the toy store that had all the gaming stuff in town had bins of them. I've tossed a few over the years that were irretrievably rounded and...

probably the most memorable thing about Dragon that I recall, weirdly enough, didn't involve D&D, but were the short and goofy games in the early issues.... Elefant Hunt (no, I didn't misspell that), File 13, Food Fight, Flight of the Boodles, etc.

me too! I lucked out in that I was one of the authors in that issue, so I got two contributor copies along with my subscription copy, so I removed one set and cut it up, removed one set but didn't cut it up, and kept one issue pristine. Alas, I lost the cut out deck somewhere years ago, but...

from what I remember: max hp at 1st level ignoring level limits for demi-humans simplifying initiative to 'both sides roll a D6, highest number means that side goes first' ignoring all those % chances to write a spell in your spellbook Actually, when I look at it, a lot of what we did was not so...

IIRC, the Al Qadim line was specifically designed to run 3 years and no more from the very beginning. But that was the only one with a preplanned shelf life, I think....

having just finished up "Game Wizards".... yeah. 1984 was a bad year, and Satanic Panic likely had little to do with it. For various reasons, sales just plateaued and never got better. The years leading up to it showed that the people in charge of TSR really didn't know how to manage a...

true, she definitely went too far. Always wondered if she did/should have gotten some counseling to help her deal with her grief. As it was, the statistics came out later showing that D&D was far from a negative influence, and quite the opposite in fact. Luckily, her crusade didn't really...

Kids, no. I wasn't a kid when I started playing though, and I couldn't help but notice that TSR had some management issues... some things just couldn't be hidden.... the mass layoffs at different times, the failure of some business ventures (acquiring SPI's stuff, for ex.), etc.

as much as I despised the Satanic Panic people, I always hesitated to denounce this particular person.... losing a child has to be the worst thing in the world....

having started with rpgs in 1980, I saw the Satanic Panic thing as something.... that happened way over there. In spite of the fact that I grew up in a tiny MT town surrounded by some rather religious conservative types, the whole anti-D&D thing was never really a thing there. People generally...

not my fav supplement, but definitely my fav cover art.

Greyhawk and some Dungeon Adventures ones that weren't specifically set there, but had a nautical theme and could fit well into that book. Which kinda brings up the idea if they could do something similar with other adventures set there. There's the whole GDQ line, the Slavers line, the...

I seem to be alone in this, but my favorite in the series was Sea of Death... mainly because I was always intensely interested in that lost city that was the capital of the Suel Empire...

one problem... IIRC, for DTRPG to do those great scans, they have to essentially destroy an original copy to get them (I think one of their people said that on another website I hang out on). Destroying one of those early copies seems a bit... like heresy. :P

I suppose WOTC could do one big book with pre and post Wars info. The Post Wars WoG, though, has a lot more changes than just the SB being outed. A couple of nations just disappear, the Flan are damn near exterminated, Hepmonaland is revealed as an SB backwater place instead of the mysterious...

yep, just that. About the only exceptions I can remember (it's been a few... decades) were surprise (another complicated 1E thing) and sometimes spells that had long casting times. In the events of ties, we'd have everyone in melee strike at once and spells would be judged on casting times...

while the WoG is my favorite campaign, there's a rather large question to be answered before it can be updated for 5E: Pre or Post Wars. The two settings have some big differences.... nations and people wiped out, etc. One of the biggest ones is the role of the Scarlet Brotherhood... Pre Wars...