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I had the War Captains' Companion once upon a time. Didn't use much of it, but I did use the deck plans for the clipper ship for an Oerth-bound adventure... the Turucambi one mentioned in one of the GH books, where a mysterious lost ship there was noted to be a clipper in the DM's notes... I...

I subscribed to Dragon well before issue 100, and kept it up through 300... and then let it lapse. I enjoyed it a lot when it was 1E/2E and I was still active in gaming, but when I stopped playing and 3E came around, I lost interest in it all. But yeah, getting Dragon in the mail during my...

my buying experiences span a lot of time, and my habits shifted a lot... 1E years. I basically bought everything I could find at the stores, which wasn't so much when you lived in a little MT town. 2E years. Mail order over the phone came along, and I bought just about every 2E product that...

biggest group I ever had was the last one, me (DM) and 7 players. That was about as many as I could handle. Considering the tiny MT town I was living in at the time and the rather small group of RPG players in it, that was probably a majority of the D&D population there....

the only 1E house rules that I recall using off the top of my head are: max HP at first level' nixing the level/stat limits for gender/race 1 always misses, 20 always hits that's about it...

haven't been a DM in a long time, but I used Greyhawk (a lot) and the Realms (once)....

nice idea for a campaign. But... if the base of it is 'the natural world is turning against the town', I'd probably have gone with something more nature based, like the Unseelie Court from Monster Mythology... dark fey forces and all that. Maybe that group of NPCs that failed badly at...

I'm guessing the answer isn't 'hugs'?

my crafting was limited to drawing maps and painting minis.... lack the skills and know-how to do terrain, and generally just used big white boards and markers to sketch out the dungeons...

I think B1 mentioned Ratik as one of the possible places to set it... or maybe it was B2. Have to look, been a while since I read either. In any event, I think EGG had the broad intention that the blocked off tunnel that led from the 'temple of evil chaos' in the Caves of Chaos led to...

kinda/sorta... it was shown on the large area map in the Return to the Keep on the Borderlands module (although not detailed there), which was set on the edge of the Yeomanry...

Heh. I wrote some of the ones for Dungeon that appear there. A couple aren't really where I placed them when I ran them way back in the day, but I wasn't very specific when I sent them to Dungeon sometimes....

I ran a one shot adventure once that was set in a valley run by tinker gnomes who had every variant of the giant space hamsters listed in that MC entry (yes, every one), plus a couple of my own creation. And there was also a monstrous evil flumph. But when it comes to 'monsters never used'...

uh... wow. Way back in my 1E days, PC permadeath happened. A lot. Especially at low levels. Of course, way back in those early days, people were still figuring out the game, and the idea of long story-driven campaign arcs wasn't really around much. The attitude, "I died? Well, that sucks...

it lives! This is one of the funniest threads in the history of the internet. It makes me laugh every time. I'm glad it gets resurrected every so often so new members can enjoy it...

one of the more obscure starting towns is Dagger Rock, from Dungeon #4, "Trouble at Grog's". It's nicely fleshed out, with some well described and interesting NPCs, a local mystery to solve, and a hidden treasure that no one knows about.

I've used a few small towns of my own creation at times to start a campaign, but my favorite was always the City of Greyhawk.... so much stuff there....

what omissions are you thinking of here? Granted, the folio and boxed set only covered a part of one continent (although there was that teasing pic of an expanded view of Oerik in both of them).... and we never really had any official expansion of the area until The Scarlet Brotherhood was...

even way back in 1E days, I don't recall this being a real issue. From what I remember, I never saw any female fighters, since they suffered from strength limits under 1E rules, but female thieves and mages weren't uncommon, since STR didn't really matter for them so much. I had a male mage PC...

uh... didn't some mammoth species live down in the temperate regions? I know that mastodons or some of their relatives lived all the way down into the tropics in the new world. say, are we getting a tad off topic here? :)