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One of my nieces got into playing D&D 5E a few years ago. Last year I got her a copy of "Kobolds ate my baby!"... doubt she'll ever play it, but it's a hoot to read. This year I got her a bunch of oddball dice... a whole set that includes all those 'not really in the game' types like D5s and...

the one time I ran it (the 'Rorke's Drift' scenario), I used the counters that came with the game (maybe the 1E game? don't recall), and just drew up the fort on a big sheet of poster board. Nothing fancy, but it worked...

I bought the Holmes basic set, but never actually played in a campaign with it, a couple of one shots for a couple of months. I quickly found out about AD&D and played it off and on (in college, out of college, moving around) from 1980 to 1989, when 2E came out, which I played only for a couple...

never did see that one. The Battlesystem 2E one wasn't too bad, it kept everything flowing pretty smoothly (unlike the 1E version). As a player, I can only remember being in one mass battle scenario, our group was stuck in a city under siege. We never did lead any troops, but operated as...

I can remember going through three editions of the mass combat rules... first was the old 'Swords and Spells' supplement... tried solo gaming out a battle with it and found it lackluster and not so great. Then Battlesystem 1E came out... it was better, but sooooo much bookkeeping involved...

I can only remember using a war scenario once in the campaigns I DMd, and the PCs were basically on the fringes of it, carrying out commando raids and the like. I only did a couple of mass battles, one of which was a sorta replay of Rorke's Drift (with goblins standing in for the Zulus)....

I1 is about as pulpy as it gets... you're exploring a lost city in a jungle. One of the reasons it's my favorite...

Is that the one with the 'blue book' manual? That was my first foray into D&D, figured out later about AD&D and it being a separate game and all. The book only covered PCs up to level 3 though. uh... really? While I agree that the books were rather chaotic and unclear in details in places, I...

I got mine at Hobby Lobby and Walmart... most are basic bobbin/floss boxes, which have nice size holders for the average PC/NPC figure. They also have some larger boxes with sides that you can move around some and customize for the sizes; I've used them for giants and dragons. I just cut up...

Yeah, there are some rather large and awesome minis out today that are about impossible to store. I have the Mumak from GW, and I mounted it on a board and keep it out in the open cuz there's no way it'll fit into a box. But... for minis that aren't quite so large but still rather big and...

I go back far enough that the majority of my minis are from Ral Partha, Grenadier, and Minifigs. These were the ones I used when I was an active gamer/DM. Ended up with some minis from GW when me and my nephews were into Warhammer and LOTR. Nowadays, I buy some from Reaper occasionally just...

item saving throws were one of the (many) rules that our group used on a 'depends on the situation' basis. I always thought it was a bit odd that a sword or shield could be destroyed by a fireball... does that spell create such intense forge like heat that it could melt steel? If so, then mere...

magic combined with agriculture is an interesting idea. In the real medieval times, the vast majority of the people were involved in agriculture, something like 80% IIRC. A lot of it was just grunt work; pre-mechanization agriculture is really manpower intensive. Sowing, weeding, watering...

O i have that too, and was deeply unimpressed with it… atrocious writing.

I always vaguely pictured a typical game world as ‘core areas of farms and towns, frontier borders in some kingdoms are patrolled regularly by the army.’ I always thought that kingdoms would have larger permanent military forces than our world did because of the ‘monster problem’

my biggest problem with it was that it was kinda vague in places... particularly the tertiary abilities, which weren't really explained well on which type of barbarian gets which one. The DM would have needed to work all those out ahead of time. Plus, when the idea of NWP came along, the whole...

To me, they always seemed guilty of the same things... some nepotism, some bad investments. I've said before though, that LW did bring some needed business savvy to the company, which EGG lacked. Denying that is looking at EGG's management with rose colored glasses. The only good part of...

heh. I can remember Roger Moore, in one of his Dragon editorials, telling us of a monster submission that tried to make use of the Comeliness rules... it was essentially a 'woman/lobster centaur', which had the nude torso of a woman with the bottom half of a lobster and big lobster claws...

again, I have to ask... is anyone here claiming EGG was a good business manager and did a good job managing TSR when he was in charge? Even when I was just starting out in D&D way back during his management, I thought he wasn't all that great. My general impression of him was always 'good idea...

I have to wonder... are there a lot of old school gamers around who think EGG was a good businessman? Heck, I started with 1E way back in 1980, and even back then, I was pretty sure he wasn't. There were quite a few indicators of it at the time... the biggest one that had me scratching my head...