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are you a grognard if you used to play way back in the old days and don't anymore but hang around on here out of nostalgia about those good old days, but don't really care that lotsa people are playing new versions that aren't really anything like the ones you played?

I got the set way back in 1980, my first introduction to D&D/RPGs, although I didn't do much with it after finding out about AD&D. Still have the rulebook, but alas, everything else in it crumbled away. Except the chits, which I used once and tossed in the trash soon after.... went out and...

love the cover on this one, but I don't think I made use of any of the D&D stuff inside, not even the monsters.

I'm in charge of it? Well, I'm sure you will all find other hobbies to indulge in...

most of it.... I was a grownup when it came out, had a job, etc, so I wasn't always able to see it first run, but I did see the entire series (I think) eventually as they did reruns...

From what I remember back in the day, most of us just ignored everything about falling damage being unrealistic and just stuck with the RAW for it. The main thing I remember about this issue was how much of a hoot it was reading the Elefant Hunt game... I think I still have that issue with the...

Isn't Perrenland known for it's pikemen?

I ran a lot of outdoor adventures back in the day, but yeah, agree with you. I always kept it a lot simpler.

The last time I ran it, I think I had a band of orcs (allied to those in B2, which the PCs went into later) trying to loot the place and setting off some of the traps in the place, as well as the bodies of another unfortunate adventuring band who were unlucky in encountering the orcs. The upper...

The familiar article was one that I noticed, since I had done something similar a few years before it appeared... in my last tour as a DM in college, I had to deal with a mage PC who got a special familiar that didn't really fit him, so I created some new ones better suited for both good and...

Maybe my old copy of B2/Keep on the Borderlands. First module I ever read

I paid particular attention to the 'what we're looking for' article, as I was just starting to seriously consider trying to get published in Dragon, or even a module outside the magazine. After going through dozens of ideas, write ups, tossing those write ups and doing new ones, and tossing...

I remember being unhappy with the nerfed rangers in 2E, one of the biggest disappointments for me in the whole edition. 1E rangers were my favorite class back then, partly because with 2d8 starting hp, they had a better than average chance of actually surviving 1st level. The giant class hp...

back in 2E days, I used the verbeeg giants a couple of times as 'born to normal human parents, but had some genetic quirks that made them giants" (inspired by the description of them as 'human giants'. I had them as leaders of tribes. In a one shot game I ran using the Vikings campaign book...

the main things I remember from this one was the rakshasa article (really liked that one) and the not-so-great experiment that was the Aries section...

and the NyrDyv is Lake Superior. Almost exactly.

one of the things about the WoG is just how many of the semi-deities, demi-gods, and sometimes the gods themselves either live there or wander there. Iuz and Wastri, of course, St. Cuthbert is known to travel around as a tinker (I think my group encountered him once, but never got the DM to...

I was always amused by Wastri.... the god of bigotry and the superiority of humans, but he looks like his momma had a passionate affair with a bullfrog...

this was what I encountered when I got into D&D way back then. No official WoG gods at first, but did have the D&D book, so our PCs worshipped whatever deities in that book we felt like. Then the Dragon articles came out, and we just made it all retroactive to have our PCs worship the...

the main thing I remember about this one was the Baba Yaga module, and it having a Russian tank in her place....