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The main things causing me to make a Holmes-AD&D connection, rather than just lumping it purely with OD&D, are: 1) the fact that it always refers the reader to AD&D for higher levels and additional detail (even though, as you point out, it's much much closer to OD&D in almost every regard) and...

Holmes Basic is mostly an introductory set to OD&D, like the current D&D Starter Game Set is to 4E -- it only covers character levels 1-3, only covers dungeon adventuring (no wilderness, no castle-building or large-scale combat), and goes out of its way to actually explain how things work and...

P.S. The Holmes-edit D&D Basic Set and AD&D Monster Manual were both released in 1977, not 1979. There was a revised version of the Holmes book (correcting some errata and adding some additional monsters and art) released in 1979 and given a new copyright date, but nobody (except diaglo)...

I generally use Classic D&D to refer to the 1981-1996 versions of (non-Advanced) Dungeons & Dragons, which are both pretty consistent with each other ruleswise (moreso than 1E to 2E AD&D, or even 3.0 to 3.5) and have 3 key distinctions from Original D&D (race-as-class paradigm, universal -3 to...

Given the breaking news that Jeff Talanian (Gary's co-author on CZ:UW) has officially severed his relationship with Gygax Games (the holding company for Gary's IP, managed by a guy named Spencer Wright on behalf of Gary's widow), which throws the future of this project into considerable doubt...

Absolutely, which is why I take with a large grain of salt his claims that the version of Greyhawk Castle presented in Castle Zagyg is "better" than the version(s) that became legendary by hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people adventuring through it from the 70s to the 2000s (note: the last D&D...

The Abduction of Good King Despot (Will & Schar Niebling and Russ Stambaugh; New Infinities, 1988) Caverns of Thracia (Paul Jaquays; Judges Guild, 1979) Necropolis: The Land of AEgypt (Gary Gygax; GDW, 1992 (for Dangerous Journeys -- re-release for d20: Necromancer Games, 2002) EX2: The Land...

I like this chart. I'd add a solid line from the OD&D box to 1E AD&D and make the line from Holmes box to 1E AD&D dotted. I'd add the 1994 and 1996 "Classic Dungeons & Dragons Game" sets in with the Black Box set. I'd make the line from the RC to 3E D&D dotted. I'd separate 3.0 and 3.5 into...

I've never been to one of these LA cons. How much open gaming (as in, pick-up games aside from the formally-scheduled events shown on the website) is there? After reading the account on Jeff's Gameblog about how much fun he had running OD&D at a con I'm sorely tempted to come down and try to do...

This post is tagged "1E/2E/OD&D" but it doesn't seem that's what you're talking about, with the references to "5 foot squares" and such... FWIW the 1E spell description is pretty explicit: all images are within a 6' radius of each other, there's a blur/distortion effect on them, and the images...

Are we counting 3rd party material or only WotC? If the latter, $0 If the former, probably around $101-150 (Rappan Athuk Reloaded, the 3 issues of Dungeon with "Maure Castle" levels, and a couple d20 modules from the 3.0 era)

The box of the '81/Otus-cover set was pink/purple/magenta-ish, but the rulebook itself was red :)

QFT. I started with the red box (Larry Elmore cover art) which says right there on the box cover "This game requires no gameboard because the action takes place in the player's imagination," and that's the way it should be.

Judges Guild's City-State of the Invincible Overlord, First Fantasy Campaign, and Wilderlands of High Fantasy (which may or may not count as modules), and Tegel Manor, Modron, The Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor, GenCon IX Dungeons, and Citadel of Fire (which definitely do) were all released...

Sounds like X1: The Isle of Dread, the module that was included with the D&D Expert Set.

D&D's ioun stones are absolutely based on the IOUN stones in Vance's story "Morreion" (which was later included as part of Rhialto the Marvelous), and in fact Jack Vance was the credited author of the article in issue #4 of The Strategic Review that introduced them to D&D as a new magic item...

The 1983 WoG set didn't mention any of Jim Ward's non-human deities from D&Dg in the god-listings and mentioned demi-human and/or humanoid worshippers of various of the gods that were detailed (elven worshippers are mentioned in the Ehlonna write-up, dwarves and gnomes in another one, several of...

That's a very solid looking TOC (intriguing-sounding articles by lots of big names in modern/contemporary D&D) and nice cover (eye-catching, very professional looking). It would seem that in 3 issues this magazine has already become a worthy (or even more-than-worthy?) successor to latter-day...

I never used Corellon or Gruumsh in my 1E games.

It was once I house-ruled it back in :)