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The town I grew up in was named after a railroad guy who unashamedly put his name on two other towns, IIRC. And of course, Alexander the Great named several places after himself. I suppose you could do this in a D&D world, have several villages in different kingdoms named after some famous...

this was the first Dragon I ever bought. In later years, I picked up a few earlier issues, and a lot of later ones. Alas, many years and many moves eroded my collection down to about 30 magazines, but I still have this one....

yeah, anytime you talk about OD&D/1E/Basic, you have to keep this in mind. And it gets even more warped by the fact that none of the early TSR's writers were all that good at explaining the rules clearly. Still, it was new and hella interesting, and those of us around back in the day had a lot...

that.... looks rather similar to my first efforts as a DM. Except I used TSR's Dungeon Geomorphs set to do them.

the ones I saw on Noble Knight were $275 and $350, although I know that outfit doesn't always have a good grasp on what prices for old D&D stuff should be. I have a copy of the D&D/Cthulhu book in very good condition... except... I wrote my name in it. Damn 20 year old me...

the people who ran TSR after him knew that too.....

I've noticed that too, yet.... a lot of it seems to be discussion on older editions vs. 5E, so it's debatable where they belong....

the only ones I can recall seeing were the Thieves' World one (which one of our DMs actually ran us in for a few adventures) and Nyambe...

I pop into this thread every couple of weeks, usually thinking "Dear God, what did NuTSR do now...."

Definitely. D&D first came out in the mid 70s, when LOTR was undergoing a boom in popularity, ERB and REH novels were big sellers....

my gaming was all in the 1E and 2E years as well. Most of my PCs lived, but I definitely lost a few of them to assorted reasons... 1E had a lot of notorious 'save or die' things....

there was a Dragon article long ago that had a good description of the rakshasa, statting out different types of them and including their leader (whose name I forget) who seemed to be up there with demon princes in terms of power. Rakshasas seem like they should be the big bads of this setting...

that was my first thought as well... remove the 'save or die' and level drain, and the module becomes a lot less deadly. You could probably replace the bodak with something tougher, but not sure what you do with the vampiress....

Um.... I think you missed part of the conversation. I was talking about how my group way back in 1E days rolled up PCs using '3d6 in order' just as an experiment to see what we'd come up with. We didn't use them, it was just a test to see what would happen.

I never owned/read those two, but I have the Holmes rulebook... and it seems to be written very clearly and understandable. But, of course, it only goes to level 3...

well, the experiment was under 1E rules, so all those minimums applied. I suppose it was good that it was just an experiment and not some DM who insisted on '3d6 in order'.....

I don't remember any DM ever in any of the groups I was around going that extreme either. The most common chargen method I saw was 'roll 3d6 6 times, rearrange to suit.' Of course, lots of players wanted to play a particular class, and rather than cheat, it was generally 'roll up lotsa PCs'...

another common house rule was 'max hp at first level'. One reason I liked playing rangers in 1E....

yeah, this thread is devolving into another edition bashing one.... I always felt lucky that I got into D&D when I was 20.... early enough that I was in there when it was all pretty new (1E days), but old enough to be out of the 'awkward child/teen' era. As for answering the question of 'how...

I don't remember out and out cheating, but I remember a lot of 'rolling up lotsa PCs.' One really common thing was not rolling '3d6 in order', but 'rolling 3d6 6 times, and rearrange them as you please.' Even back in those olden days, you had players who liked particular classes, and letting...