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I would qualify the 1e Grey Box as "not horrible, with some really excellent parts," which was somewhat remarkable considering some of the absolute carp TSR was spewing out at the tail end of the '80s. The 1e era FR supplements also tended to be pretty good. The whole thing got pretty messed...

Cool stuff. A little spice is always nice, and it doesn't get much spicier than Arduin. I assume you already know about these, but figured I'd link 'em anyway... World Book of Khaas Arduin Trilogy If not for you, maybe your players.

Well, by the O(A)D&D rules, there isn't a save for traps, unless that trap involved one of the list of saves. (A poisoned needle, for example.) Now, depending on what version of the O(A)D&D rules you were playing, there may or may not have been a baseline rule for determining whether a trap...

If the DM (or module writer) came up with a different challenge that wasn't covered in the rules, it was in the DM's (or module writer's) discretion to allow a save and set the target value. It's really no different than a later edition DM coming up with a challenge not covered in the rules and...

It was a trade off. Spells were more powerful (harder to save against) but wands and other devices were more reliable (harder to disrupt). In every case, going down the chart, you have a 5% better chance of saving against a device than a spell. So maybe it would have been better to eliminate...

One of the objections fans of 3+e D&D have raised that I've never understood in the slightest is issues with saving throws. I never thought twice about pre-3e D&D's saving throws, which essentially boiled down to, "here's a short list of special attacks that allow a saving throw to lessen or...

In the 30 years of playing and DMing (mainly pre-2e) D&D, I have rarely ever seen the 15-minute adventuring day. Far, far more common in my experience has been "just one more room syndrome." That is where the party suffers dire consequences from deciding to extend the adventuring day, when...

Yes. I believe that is the consensus. At the tale end of 1e, in the late '80s - about 1986 or 1987, TSR completely changed their module style and format. While there were certainly exceptions on both sides of my dividing line, you could generally say that prior to the change, adventures were...

I did a similar thing in one of my campaigns. I took the idea from X2 Castle Amber, and had each principality in my campaign named after a substance - Amber, Silver, Iron, Granite, etc.

I think the OP's example might be a bit of hyperbole. If you were to change... to... The PCs were under a quest given by Thor to save Prague from the Mongol Horde, and needed Copernicus' help to get the Holy Grail from mad Emperor Nero. Isn't that doing the same thing, but with less...

I know the OP said he didn't want to hear it, but I think it bears repeating with one additional caveat... Make sure everyone is having fun, and that includes, you, the DM. If the players are having a blast but you're not, you're doing it just as wrong as if the the players aren't having any...

Gimme a break. Seriously? I mean seriously?

A couple ideas: 1. A super-powered serial killer, or group of same, whose victims are women. 2. A "pro-feminist" political candidate is marked for assassination (due to that issue or any other) and the superhero is his/her only hope. Sort of a first season of 24, but with super powers. 3...

I'm sorry Byron, but I don't understand what you're saying in the slightest. OSRIC references the SRD, but doesn't use it? That doesn't make sense. The SRD's only purpose is to be referenced. You seem to be claiming that the OGL either can only be used or should only be used to support...

OSRIC uses the SRD published by WotC in 2000. Using the WotC SRD to re-state 1e is the entire point of OSRIC. There'd be no point in using the OGL to publish it, if it didn't. The licensing language on the last page of the OSRIC rules clearly references the WotC SRD.

He did. I believe when addressing his opinion on OSRIC's legality, he said he "wouldn't touch OSRIC with a 10' pole." OSRIC and the other OGL clones use the same SRD and operate under the same OGL as Pathfinder does, and just like Pathfinder, they operate to allow for the publication of...

So, it seems Mr. Peterson has revised his previously strongly held opinion with regard to the legality of using OGL games to support prior editions of D&D.

It's a 28 page booklet detailing an 8 level pyramid dungeon and underground city. Thus it's quite necessarily scant in details. The first three or four levels of the dungeon are all that's really statted out fully. Everything else is basically just an outline. The suggested encounters at the...

The main reason I don't own 4e is because I picked up the 200-whatever page PHB in my FLGS, thumbed through it for a couple minutes, and then realized that I just had no interest whatsoever in buying another multi-volume, 600-plus-pages-of-core-rules role playing game. The very thought just...

Actually, the various doo-dads included in some of the sets (the counters in the monster vault, for example) are the only things about Essentials that have interested me at all. Thus, I'd probably be less interested in a digital version of essentials.