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I don't really like any of that stuff. What I like best as a DM is sitting at one end of the table administering the setting/campaign/adventures/NPCs for a group of players and seeing them come to life through the interactive process of actual play -- whether those elements were created by me or...

The OD&D boxed set and all of the supplements are available on pdf from RPGNow. The boxed set alone is all you really need, but you'll probably want Chainmail and Supplement I: Greyhawk as well -- the former for the complete combat rules (even if you decide not to use them), the latter for many...

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Unless the thief has a 100+% chance to find traps, he should never assume there's no trap just because he didn't find one. This applies especially to low-level thieves with crappy find traps percentages -- if you've got a 30% in find traps and you don't find one, what that effectively means is...

Interesting stuff on the move rates. I definitely concur on giving dwarves and hobbits a lower base move and elves a higher base move (not sure if I've ever posted about that before or not). Why do you gives elves in plate a 6" rather than 9" move -- just to disincentivize elves from wearing...

Ruleswise OD&D and the Red Book(s) are pretty close, and all of the really significant differences have already been listed by Philotomy Jurament. There's also a fairly significant difference in tone, though, which is the real reason I prefer the earlier version to the later ones. The original...

As I've mentioned many times previously on this and other rpg boards over the years, I played with EGG for 2 sessions at Glathricon, the local/regional gaming con of my hometown (Evansville, Indiana) where EGG was the Guest of Honor, in 1988. The system was AD&D (1E, which was still the only E...

Not putting up a 960 page* barrier to entry would certainly be a move in the right direction... *optionally "only" 320pp if you happen to know someone who's already read (or is willing to read) the full 960pp

Yup, that's the one. Thanks for the link. I would never have thought to look for it on the "other game" forum ;) IMO a requirement for an unarmed combat system (and why I like the UA System II and SR2 semi-system) is that it allow a crowd of mooks to dogpile a tougher character and drag him...

For AD&D I really like System II in UA (System I is a little too streamlined IMO), but for OD&D I think it's probably too complicated. I remember once upon a time extrapolating a full system out of the example included in the SR#2 Combat Example, but I don't remember what happened to it (a quick...

As said in the other thread: I started with the D&D Basic Set edited by Frank Mentzer w/ Larry Elmore cover art. My best gaming-friend had the D&D Basic rulebook edited by Tom Moldvay w/ Erol Otus cover art. When we were ready for the Expert Set I got the Cook/Marsh/Otus book and he got the...

D&D Basic Set edited by Frank Mentzer w/ Larry Elmore cover art. My best gaming-friend had the D&D Basic rulebook edited by Tom Moldvay w/ Erol Otus cover art. When we were ready for the Expert Set I got the Cook/Marsh/Otus book and he got the Mentzer/Elmore set (i.e. we both had mismatched...

FWIW, I use the simplified/non-minis-based version of this sequence that PJ alludes to, which comes down to, essentially, this: 1. Both sides roll initiative on 1d6 2. Winning side fires missiles, starts spells (and finishes spells of level 1-2) 3. Losing side fires missiles, start spells (and...

He's talking about this set, which was released in 1991 alongside the Rules Cyclopedia and replaced the Mentzer red-box. I never owned this edition but from what I understand the rules are essentially identical to those in the Mentzer set (except that it covers levels 1-5 instead of 1-3).

In the edition of D&D you're talking about (as well as earlier editions of Classic D&D - Holmes, Moldvay, Mentzer) total g.p. value of all treasure recovered is divided evenly among the surviving characters regardless of how the treasure itself is divided. Non-monetary treasure (ruby, art) is...

Just for fun, I'm going to re-run this combat, using the rules corrections I posted and some adjusted tactics for the monsters to see if the results are any different. Wherever possible I'm going to try to stick to Quasqueton's original format/wording and die-rolls: Sample combat with the AD&D1...

The DMG is contradictory. In one place (the section on armor near the front of the book) it states that magic armor weighs 1/2 and is one class less bulky than non-magical armor of the same type. However, in another place (the section on magic items near the back of the book) it says that all...

The Tomb of Rahotep from Gygax's Necropolis is definitely a killer dungeon -- pretty much the Tomb of Horrors on steroids with an extensive backstory and more active opposition (the ToH only has a couple of actual monsters, the ToR has lots more).

But the same page of the DMG that shows the square grid (8 squares surrounding the central square) also shows a hex grid (6 hexes surrounding the central hex). The grids are only there for visualizing placements of multiple attacks against a single target (which count as flanking, which count as...

It's in the DMG description of multiple attack routines, mentioned as an aside ("since a 12th level fighter gets two attack routines in every odd numbered round..." or something to that effect). Note that this directly contradicts the mention in the PH about when monks get their extra...