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Well..., technically..., that isn't entirely what Peter Aronson thought. 😄 Source: Peter Aronson, The Strategic Review Vol. 1, No. 4 (TSR, 1975) OK. All kidding aside, I agree, of course, that Illusionists aren't allowed to use wands of magic missile because, well..., Gygax rules! So I guess...

Well, technically, they could. Source: Peter Aronson, in: The Wild Hunt 19 (1977) For the purpose of which we shall magnanimously assume that "(ALL)" stands for "(any)". All of which is a good thing, for otherwise I'd have to retroactively kill off the Illusionist I played, um..., some time ago.

Allow me to add everything that Robert Kuntz made over the years after his separation from TSR (and especially before that). Now that would really be something.

Heh, true that. And I do believe Games Workshop has a strong and well-established tradition of not being forthcoming in this respect - at all. Edit: g>G

I'm not familiar with this OAR series, so with the caveats that GG leaves most of the adventure, plot, and NPCs intact and that I haven't said this if they don't, I'd say that people would be well-served if they did an anthology of some of the best scenarios that appeared in the White Dwarf...

I've always um... not like liked DCS art much and I'm not so sure whether it was all deadlines. In fact... never mind. To be fair, though, he did have one redeeming quality, and that is that he somehow had an extremely good eye for - and understanding of - 'composition' and 'dynamics'. I mean...

So how does Greyhawk fit in? I suppose one could argue that discovering and working with old Greyhawk for the first time was much like buying and driving your first 205 GTi*. It was unknown and (almost) unique, challenging, daunting even, crude and offensive, broke down all the time, and tried...

So my first reaction was: "Seriously? How can anyone not know that that's Dave Trampier?" But then I realized that this obviously meant that something was amiss, and so it is. So where has the DAT gone that I've seen on this illustration since, well, forever? Hmm... I'm sure you went through...

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Not quite sure I understand the question. Did I use "map-making" software? No, everything was "done by hand" using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). The whole thing basically boiled down to cleaning up the original maps so that only their coast- and river-lines remained and then filling...

Wow! That is quite impressive! Many, many kudos. Haven't got a clue what vectorizing is but I guess I've got my work cut out!

Well, you gotta hand it to old Gary. At least he made sure that I can have a good ROFL whenever the 1E rules for Initiative come up and the right people start discussing it.

Interesting. I guess the section "just as magic resistance" complicates things a bit. Without it, I'd (basically) say the procedure would be: Thief-Acrobat announces he wants to evade an attack he expects to occur before the round starts, Initiative is rolled for, the round starts and the T-A...

Absolutely true. Born out necessity, of course, but probably also because of how folks thought of and played D&D way back in the 70s. The lack of rules (compared to later D&D editions) left a lot of room for improvising and, since everybody came to the game from their own wargaming and/or...

Ever since @robertsconley was kind enough to provide me with a clear copy of what is perhaps the earliest published map of the original Wilderlands coz it's in JG10 (and here on Dragonsfoot), I've been amazed at how much that map differs from the later Wilderlands map(s). The Great Forest...

A-haaa! So that's what that "Blackstaff" stands for! I've always wondered.

Yup. He started from scratch and went all the way. Very impressive.