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Since I inadvertently kicked off the forked thread... Firstly, let me say congratulations to those of you who run "evil" campaigns successfully. Or play in them that don't turn in to the ridiculousness I've seen... and that ties back in with what I said : I've heard of successful "evil"...

since I happen to have this handy... (edit: the exploding head gif from SCANNERS is not as someone else pointed out grandmother safe.)

exploding head image removed - Probably not what the D&D crowd wants to see over breakfast tomorrow.

Hey Andrew, if you get a minute would you drop me a line? bsilvey at cfl dot rr dot com

You're entirely welcome; truth be truth.

I'd say something pithy like "You win the thread" or the like but we're not having any kind of debate or flamewar...so I will rather say that's the most right thing I've seen in a long time when it comes to AD&D.

Oh yeah, you've gotta throw a few curves in there - don't want the players of old modules getting complacent. The last run through of the "G" series had Nosnra using the javelins of lightning like pub darts on the players!

Within the parameters of the campaign? Sure, absolutely. If I'm playing AD&D, I can guarantee you it's set in GREYHAWK so someone saying "I've got the stats, I'm going to play a paladin." is A-OK. Conversely? Someone in the same campaign trying to force a Tiefling on me? Yeah, no not gonna...

Out of game, but pertaining to the game environment: - Smoking in the house. No. Way. - Being a prick to my wife or kids or dogs. My family is my life, and I will be more than happy to crate up the dogs for the duration of the game. - Disrespecting my house. Look, you don't like the fact...

I say: give it a spin. You can pick the books up for a couple of bucks from amazon resellers.

dammit, I wrote a well thought out and reasoned response to this and the forum software ate it Suffice to say I would never, ever do this in AD&D (of either stripe) or original D&D. It seems to me to work against the design philosophy of the game, regardless of what it does or does not in "4e".

Oh I don't miss the fun stuff of AD&D at all - it didn't go anywhere. (checking my DUNGEON MASTERS GUIDE) Nope! The Bill McLean cartoons are all still intact! :D

Well, I think we could go back and forth; both have an equal amount of adventure pathyness to them. Ultimately what's needed for either is a good Dungeon Master and four to eight folks willing to have a blast, regardless. I think T1-4 is the folk music end of the spectrum, whereas G123 is the...

I understand completely; it pains me that our remote player can't be here with us and I'd find it maddening to try and herd that many people over a connection. PbP is kind of like that - you as the DM want the action right now (and other players do, too), so the slow response time is...well...slow!

A Hickman module? In MY AD&D? Don't make me bring the Pimp Hand, lanefan! :D No, that's a good track too, and offers equal amounts of awesome. I'm just so enamored of G123 that I want people to play it right now! :)

Gary was fond of cats; he probably saw a Maine Coon lurking about and thought to himself "Hmm...I should put that in there."

T1-4 is good, but honestly, for in your face ass-kicking unstoppable AD&D awesome, you cannot beat G123 AGAINST THE GIANTS. Yes, it takes seasoned characters to play (and win!), but leveling them slowly through N1 AGAINST THE CULT OF THE REPTILE GOD, then a truncated SLAVERS campaign (A1,A2 and...

The easiest compilation of AD&D house rules that most people used over the years is found in the various BASIC D&D rulebooks, I've found. Many people (myself included, when I initially played back in the early 80's) just assumed that AD&D's initiative (for example) worked as it did in Basic and...

Oh man, I totally missed this. Why don't you offer up over at TheDelversDungeon and see if anyone will do a pbp? I'll give you the forum for it.

To point up more AD&D awesomeness (and stay with the T1-4 theme that we have going at the moment...): Sunday's game was great because of the, dare I say, balance of players and characters that were in the mix. Clerics pulling duty as fighting men and as holy healers, thieves saving the party's...