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Heya, Gary, Glad to hear you're feeling better, please accept my best wishes on your continued improvement! Now, as a point of general interest, I read a post by one of your OD&D campaign players on Dragonsfoot, where he remarks that he and his fellows have actually managed to rout (if not...

A form of partisan (itself a form of spear). From EGG's treatise in The Dragon #22 (reprinted in The Best of the Dragon vol. II and the OAD&D Unearthed Arcana). d20 stats for partizans (sic) are given on pp. 22 and 33 of Gary Gygax's World Builder.

Actually, gentle reader, the quote in question should read, "Onward, friends, to more and bigger loot," (cf. D&D, vol III, p. 14), however, none may doubt that your heart was, for the most part, in the right place, nor should there be any vaccilation concerning your conviction to the spirit of...

Only one? Holmes-edit Basic D&D--it gives everything needed to start, and then some (ie. monsters not given in the Moldvay or Mentzer edits), and anything else I can add by extrapolation.

You're quite something. In an age of Amber Alerts, round-the-clock news networks, rapid communication, e-mails, sensitivity to missing children, and where American license plates and funny accents stick out like sore thumbs (especially in a country used to noticing their presence simply because...

Try it sometime. Really. Even with your own children. I'm in the tourism industry, and you simply would not believe the number of father-son (where the son is a minor) fishing trips I've seen cancelled because the parent did not have sufficient documentation with him (including written...

emphasis added. No, no. Storm Raven said it was quite easy. Go back and read his post! Children are actually one of the "easiest" things to acquire.

Ah, and there goes any sense of logic this thread ever had. Don't bother responding to any of my posts, as they won't have much relevance on the world you live on. Here, on my planet, at least, alcohol for minors, MP3 and DVD players, narcotics, firearms, and automobiles are far more readily...

Right. So, show me where the cash value for the following are given in the D&D books so I know how much to charge my PCs for the following, as I custom fashion a new magic item: The breath of a fish. The sound of a cat stalking. Moonlight reflected in Kheled-zaram. Tears freely shed from a...

Nonsense. The trade commodity would merely have to be something other than coin. Personally, I recommended an exchange of components and cash, but certainly a transaction that involved only specific components for the fashioning of the items desired would be feasible. The game effect is...

Actually, according to the original post, we're talking about whether or not the PCs should be able to buy magic items.

Lots of those old classic mods and module series were written and playtested as tournament one-shots, too, not always intended for wholesale inclusion in a regular campaign without personal tailoring by the DM. As to the thread topic, an NPC wizard or cleric can take the place of the shoppe...

Hardly hidden considering its right there beside the pertinent encounter statistics, along with the information for arms and armour. Really, what more do you need to determine their ability in combat, especially given the standards of the day for these kinds of thing? G1-3 only gave you Hit...

pg. 9, under "Description of the Kawibusas" These barbarian tribesmen... pg. 11, in the side bar for unit forces description ...All the warriors belong to the barbarian character class with large hide shields and the following tertiary skills: Animal Handling, Running, Sound Imitating and...

No, not at all. You've clarified your position, and I apologise for jumping the gun, so to speak. It's all copacetic. As to particulars... I've used this module twice, both times stripping out the quest for the Crook of Rao and the meeting with Tenser. Initially, the Player Characters found a...

Rose coloured glasses, indeed. Of course, implying that I do wear them. Bugger it, we'll let all that nonsense go to avoid the flame war that would certainly result. The "actually" is in direct response to your statement that the module was "built" to punish players, with implication that that...

Actually, it was an AD&D adaption of the OD&D adventure written back in the early '70s for EGG's LG campaign (as a sub-level accessed in the dungeons beneath CG)--as stated in the second paragraph of the forward. As for the "punishment" factor, I offer the following from the Introduction: "The...

Fourth (fifth?) recommendation for the Moldvay-edit Basic D&D (the red-coloured/Erol Otus artwork) and its sister volume, the Cook/Marsh-edit Expert rules (blue cover, more Otus art). Better layout than the Menzter-edit "red book", and is more self-contained than the Holmes-edit Basic D&D...

Quoted because my experience mirrors francisca's exactly. It's not the best method for everyone, naturally, as it requires co-operation and a degree of trust between the participants and the referee, but then, the methods in d20 aren't always the best for everyone, either. (Obviously, you may...

IIRC, Gary sent the lads through a chute to the other side of the world (China) at the bottom of CG--so, I guess he did send them "outside to play", in a sense. :p