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If they used the core AD&D rules and typical setting (per PH and DMG plus Gygax reading list), then yes they would be more or less the AD&D experiance.

Mallus homebrewing isn't that extreme. Its still a setting with a bunch of guys running around with swords, carrying torches, exploring dark places, casting spells, fighting monsters etc. Wayne, I don't mind non-early TSR stuff at all. Infact I invite change for the better. What I don't like...

The sad thing is WOTC had some FANTASTIC artwork produced and leaked here at ENworld (by Eric Noah?) and other places on the net (I remember one of a ranger and another of a monk that were normally dressed, normally proportioned, no stupid poses, no idiotic expressions, etc.), so WOTC had good...

JH wrote -RPGs are Role Playing Games. You seem to be ignoring two thirds of that word. The rules in an rpg are just there to create a framework and provide methods of resolving actions with an uncertain outcome. The 'D&D experience' is mainly created by the DM's presentation and the kind of...

Geron wrote -What Crothian describes are people that long for the "same (A)D&D" they experienced as kids. And that simply won't come back anymore. Nobody is able to tune out 20 or 30 years of adult life AND roleplaying experience.- Geron the same thing can be said for anything. I will never...

No, art is in the eye of the beholder. RPGs are games (not art), games with rules that by definition reproduce the same experiance over and over. Think of Monopoly Geron. That is a game with a board and a rule book. People pick up that rule book and read it, then they move pieces around a...

This AD&D experiance=nastalgia arguement is completely and utterly false . I have brought way too many people into AD&D over the last few years that experiance EXACTLY the same things as I experianced when I was introduced to the game way back in 1981. How is such a thing possible you ask...

OK, I'm admittedly still recovering from seeing some of the 3E/3.5 spikey armored, tattooed covered, mowhawked topped, spandex wearing, "oddly" preportioned (often dimorphic), overly action posed figures found in the computer generated "wash look" artwork of this period. I realize these...

If D&D is just a name, and WOTC owns it and calls its latest version of its FRPG D&D than it is (but then they could call any game D&D and it would be). If D&D is a certain "range" (rather then just a name or trademark) or combination of setting (classic sword and sorcery, low tech...

what Con is this?

Q: - but the points of contention were all concerning whether Mayfair was violating the contract they agreed to, not whether they had the right to indicate compatibility with AD&D in the first place.- But it is a violation to say something is "compatable with" without permission, right? For...

Thanks Vo, this is by far the most information I've seen on this subject. You quoted: -"Unsatisfied with Mayfair's performance, on January 22, 1991 TSR filed its initial Complaint against Mayfair" I wonder what "performance" means here? Also, did TSR get payed in some way by Role Aids for...

In another thread Melan said: -Outside the OSRIC document, the supplements are on par with Role Aids material... and contrary to some online myths, those had never been ruled to be in violation of TSR's copyrights and trademarks. With the OGL, a case would be even harder to make.- My...

Melan wrote: -Dragonsfoot's free 1e adventures: they are a bit variable, but often very good! They resemble TSR's output both outside and inside.- Melan, which of Dragonsfoot's 1e Adventures did you find to be the most like the early 1E TSR modules of 78-81 or so? Just curious. I've tried...

Hussar, I actually kind of agree with you here. It is very un-AD&D to restrict your DM created reality to any given technology or setting. I remember one campaign our DM got pissed at one of the players for peeking over the screen and so sent us all to a brigg in the USS Nimitz. I used color...

Melan, I think in your list, you've missed one critical "value" of OSRIC and that is introducing new players to the AD&D world. Certainly some of the 6000+ individual downloaders (some too young to know AD&D (or perhaps getting back into it after 20 years), have garnished enough interest to...

Hussar, if you are saying your PCs homes had continual light in every room and you had hippogriffs, thats fine. I'm talking about "the average home" or street having continual light spells all over, that sort of thing. As long as its something the PCs do for themselves, I think that jibes...

ORCUS: " If it did, you guys wouldnt be here tryijng to drag it into the limelight with these otherwise useless and highly repetitive discussions just to say OSRIC OSRIC OSRIC over and over again." First point, I am the only person in this thread being repetitive about OSRIC, there is no "you...

ORCUS thankyou for answering my questions. I appreciate that greatly. Maggen, you may be right about WOTC not looking at manuscripts at all. For some reason I thought I read someplace they did check on request for some companies, but can't remember now where I saw this. I wonder if it was a...