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from what I remember back in 1E days, most of the groups I was in reduced all that to 'one player rolls a D6, DM rolls a D6, winner gets initiative for their side.' The only thing that affected it was surprise....

yeah, that was pretty obvious to those of us playing the game back then. I think my biggest disappointment about 2E was that it wasn't a straight 'clean up' of 1E... I was really annoyed that TSR was so spooked by the BADD crowd that they took the fiends out of the game (at first) and some of...

no, you're not the only one. By my count, I have 22 of the ones on your list, a few others that aren't on the list, and PDFs of several more. I'm so very weak....

I bought the 1E books before finding a group, managed to get into one that was running a one shot with starting PCs, played some kind of half elf fighter/mage. The main thing I remember about that first adventure was getting stuck alone someplace with a zombie and killing it with a couple of...

I'd have to agree with the people throughout this thread who are noting the nostalgia value of most of the list. The ultimate example is B2... this one was a very early module and reflected the 'it's all new and we're not really sure what we're doing' attitude at the time. When the game was...

ever play any of the early 1E modules? They were stuffed to the gills with treasure, both magical and mundane. This carried over into the first adventures in Dungeon Adventures too. Yeah, I think that rule got ignored a lot. Otherwise, our parties (especially after going through those early...

I wasn't a child, but... yeah, this seems to have been a common experience. 1E was really not well organized or explained. That said, it was something new and the basic idea was a real attention grabber that people loved...

I've lived most of my life in MT, ID, and WY... always thought the Barrens in Greyhawk were a good match, although I never ran a whole campaign there....

Greyhawk at first, because that's all there was for a while. I ran a campaign in the FR during my short time in 2E days....

at the time, I was considering writing in and asking "If the whole world is dead except for Waldorf, why is he mining all that salt?", but I didn't....

come to think of it... I gave one of my nieces a complete D3 to D30 set of dice for Christmas last year (she plays 5E), plus a bunch of other weird dice. like random weather and treasure dice, a couple of D26 alphabet dice (I thought those would be fun for rolling up random names and then...

the first World of Greyhawk boxed set. It gave the DMs in our group so much to work with....

I was an active gamer back when this one came out, and our group used Greyhawk as our campaign world, as it was the only published one around at the time. We followed EGG's updates in Dragon with great interest, and made use of them at times...

Heh. I remember that question/issue too. Dragon got a lot of weird questions back in the day. One of my favorites was "How do you gladiate in D&D?"

just to note... you can buy all kinds of weird dice online, pretty much every number between D3 and D20, plus D22, D24, D26, D30, and some higher ones. Just for the hell of it, I collected a set having every available D I could find from D3 to D30

the Monster Manual, of course, notoriously plundered literature for it's critters, everything from Tolkien to mythology to fantasy literature. ERB seems to have had some influence, as noted earlier.... although EGG didn't seem to take much from Pellucidar. The lizard men might have been taken...

The town I grew up in was named after a railroad guy who unashamedly put his name on two other towns, IIRC. And of course, Alexander the Great named several places after himself. I suppose you could do this in a D&D world, have several villages in different kingdoms named after some famous...

this was the first Dragon I ever bought. In later years, I picked up a few earlier issues, and a lot of later ones. Alas, many years and many moves eroded my collection down to about 30 magazines, but I still have this one....

yeah, anytime you talk about OD&D/1E/Basic, you have to keep this in mind. And it gets even more warped by the fact that none of the early TSR's writers were all that good at explaining the rules clearly. Still, it was new and hella interesting, and those of us around back in the day had a lot...

that.... looks rather similar to my first efforts as a DM. Except I used TSR's Dungeon Geomorphs set to do them.