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Harumph, I say to you, you player-coddling softie! -8 or -9? It's -6, whippersnapper! :) Oh, and my group has cleaned off the entirety of the first level except for the Earth Temple; they don't know how to deal with the Elementals in the room, and were almost wiped out by them but for some...

That is truly awesome. My party is down on the 2nd level and nearly got their lunch eaten in the Temple of Evil Air Elementals, then again at the hands of the bugbears on the west side of the dungeon You are using the week-to-recover from negative HPs, right?

T1-4 THE TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL is a tough nut to try and crack your first time out of the gate with AD&D, even with T1. G123 AGAINST THE GIANTS is a more straightforward campaign, and may be better suited to trying out the first time. Regardless, if your players only have second hand (and...

They did. Their genius was their adaptability; their...dare I say...modularity.

As I mentioned earlier, a lot of the awesomeness of AD&D comes from the modules. When you're playing S1 TOMB OF HORRORS or S4 LOST CAVERNS OF TSOJCONTH you really feel (as a player) that you're hanging it out over the edge. No super-powers are going to save you, only by careful planning and...

That's awesome. I mean, as in, it literally inspires a sense of awe in me. Twenty five years. Man. I wish I'd been able to kick it off back in '81 and keep going...! I'll have to settle for...huh! Ten years this autumn now.

Yes, but those classes are doing things other than Fighting, which is the province of Fighters. :) But this is sailing dangerously towards "Let's compare 1e AD&D to 2e AD&D" which is beyond (my, anyway) desired scope of the thread. :)

Be aware that there are two distinct print runs of B2 KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS with regards to rules - and it's one of the rare cases where a module was rule-amended during the pre 2e days. The edit for the J.E. Holmes basic denotes monster Dex scores (with DX in the stat line). Additionally...

For the record, I think I should point out that my "first" D&D wasn't any version of the rules; the closest would be the J.E. Holmes edit of "Basic" D&D (you know; blue cover, dragon menacing wizard and fighter...or vice-versa, anyway). I had no idea what D&D was and only the vaguest possible...

You seem to have come to grips with the problem admirably; I think there's a juncture at which a near total party kill must be dealt with in an "efficient" manner. Certainly lining a number of 1st level characters up behind the survivor(s) where they can only hope not to be wiped out again is...

Consumer alert: I am not trying to put words in the original poster's mouth. For one, I don't know where that mouth has been; I might catch something. No, I am trying to make sense of the post, and this is my attempt. It is explicitly stated in the rules for 4th edition DUNGEONS & DRAGONS and...

THE TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL is quite a module, that's for sure. I like much of it; some of it, especially the elemental nodes, I'm not particularly fond of. I played in a good part of it a few years back and the then-DM cut the Elemental Nodes out completely and instead used some of his...

It is not a piracy issue in the least. Ah, here we are. TILE SYSTEM is the app you want, it's all available at the above link. He's current up to 2006 which covers most of the major sets. I think if you do some poking around (esp. on the DWARVEN FORGE forums) you can find updates.

I watched the FUTURAMA "moviesode" titled BENDER'S GAME last night. It was a love letter to Gary, and the entire thing hinged on just what you mention - the power of dice. Quite apropos that they chose the oft-neglected d12 as the die in question - not a d20, yet provided a wide enough range...

There is a tool for doing just that; it's somewhere on my hard drive, I'll scrape it up for you

I get the biggest kick out of reading 1e modules, especially those written by Gary, Allan Hammack, and Dave Cook. The style in which they were written gives one a feeling that you're reading DM's notes, in a very good way. Those guys were the first "dungeon masters" to come around (along with...

Yes I did. And I do. I also tend to format like the old hardbacks and modules: APPENDIX N: INSPIRATIONAL READING G1 THE STEADING OF THE HILL GIANT CHIEF ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS a potion of healing a +1 longsword and so forth. I find it sets my posts apart.

I have - and do - use DWARVEN FORGE on many occasions. I use it with homebrewed adventures as well as with modules. As someone else in the thread does, I use black cloths to cover up unexplored areas of the dungeon. If there is a potential for the players being surprised by the monster (for...

I love 1st edition AD&D. I do. I think it's a fantastic game system. It is the best D&D I've ever played, and I've played them all. Gary's writing is awesome. The default assumption of GREYHAWK throughout the mainstay of the system's publication is awesome, too. Once you get the flow of...

Hi all, I'm starting a new blogoforum post series over at The Delver's Dungeon wherein over the course of a few entries I'll take a look at various "core" AD&D books. The first two books I've posted about are UNEARTHED ARCANA and the FIEND FOLIO. The first half of the FIEND FOLIO entry is up...