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rangers, fighters, paladins, thieves... the group I was in abused the dual weapon wielding rules... a lot. I found that if you could get a Dex high enough to cancel the penalty in your main hand, the chances of whiffing in your off hand didn't matter so much... if you hit at all, it's bonus...

only played 1E and 2E, vote for 1E. Have some fond memories of playing rangers in those days, took one from 1st to 15th level. One of the big things in it's favor was that '2d8 hp at first level'... especially with the 'max hp at 1st level' house rule that so many of us used. While having...

one of the amusing things about the WoG is how it sorta reverses this trope. The two jungle areas are noted as being inhabited by Suloise, a white skinned/blonde race. Meanwhile up in the north, the dominant peoples tend to have olive or bronze skin....

okay, I'm curious as if you've read any of the sources in the OP. Because Nyambe definitely isn't that. Not sure of the others, haven't read any of them except the Chult one, and that is more 'lost world' than not Africa...

? not if you're using the actual kingdoms that existed there as a base. Wealthy, vast armies, shrewd traders, skilled craftsmen, and not a 'noble savage' in sight.

I can vaguely remember sketching out a fantasy not-Australia long ago in my DM days, but I had it more like 'Australia right when humans first arrived there'... less arid, lots of megafauna around... don't think I ever had the PCs visit though..

I don't think their home base is in the jungle, but it's definitely a semi-tropical place... kinda like Florida. They always reminded me of the Assassins of our history, due to their infiltration across the Flanaess and you never know when one of them will strike...

Nyambe did a decent job of doing that, although 'knights' as such don't really fit well. While you don't want a 'not Africa' that is nothing but a savage uncivilized hellhole, you can certainly borrow concepts from the real one and create fantasy counterparts of the real kingdoms that existed...

I tended to use bigger scales back in my DM days, more like 10 miles/hex. I used a mix of random encounters appropriate for the terrain/climate and placed encounters as well. Back in 1E days, it was a lot easier to draw up random encounter tables... there weren't so many monsters. When 2E...

they always struck me as 'Nazis mixed with the Assassins of Alamut"..

I was never fond of them inside the dungeon itself, but kept them for wilderness treks....

throwing lots of traps at the party sounds like fun at first, but in practice, I always found it made them crawl through the dungeon super slow, checking everything (and I mean everything) for traps. Thus, I kept traps pretty minimal, often using a few in the finale of an adventure....

Stygia was ancient Egypt. The black kingdoms were Keshan, Kush, and Zembabwe, which are shown on the map. Plus there is the barely mentioned 'island kingdoms' where Belit got her crewmen from....

I first got into the game when I was in college back in 1980, when it was really starting to take off and there wasn't a lot of official product out there. It was a lot of fun over the next ten years, but sadly, the last group I was in disbanded in 1990, when graduation and jobs forced it on...

one thing about 1E/2E... it was hella easy to houserule. You could cut out huge chunks of the game if you didn't like them. Don't like racial level limits? Toss them. Racial/gender limits on stats? Toss them. Change the XP advancement levels? Easy. Don't like the alignment system? Toss...

the last WoG campaign I ran was long before the GW, so I set most everything around Greyhawk city... KotB in the Cairn Hills, that Reptile Cult one by the marsh there (same for the Tomb of the Lizard King), Saltmarsh down near Hardby, Horror on the Hill southwest of KotB, etc.

IIRC, the original said it might be in Ratik too. It's been a lot of places. The last time I used it in a campaign, I put it in the Cairn Hills near Greyhawk City...

agree with City of Greyhawk. It is surrounded by a lot of interesting stuff. The last time I used it as a campaign setting, I ended up moving a few other WoG modules to be near it...

the DTRPG ones are not the same layout as the originals... the whole thing is bound as a book, and the previous contents of the inside covers and separate maps are bound with everything else on the inside. A good idea would be to buy the PDF along with the POD so you can print the maps/handouts...

in one FR campaign I ran, I introduced the equivalent of flintlock horse pistols. Just to simplify everything, I had the ammo for it sold in pre-made cartridges'... basically, the equivalent of those linen cartridges they used way back in Ye Olden Days. That way I didn't have to bother with...