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I turned 60 today. Which means I am officially entitled to gripe about young people now. Dang young people these days with their 5E and Feats and Skills, why back in the old days, we rolled 3d6 in order for stats and 3 out of 4 new PCs died in their first adventure... and we liked it that way!

yeah, my first thought was 'get a pet ghost, hug him a lot'. But then you'd get the brain of a baby dragon in the body of an adult one. That could be interesting....

meh. D&D is medieval based because the game started out heavily influenced by LOTR (in spite of what EGG said)… the basic appeal of the game was 'hey, you can play an elf and fight orcs in this vaguely medieval world'... the nice thing about D&D is that it's bendable enough that if you don't...

I can vaguely remember seeing that article too, but I just don't recall when it appeared.... obviously, it had to be in the fairly early days of Dragon, early 80s... there was some fairly specific numbers in it, i.e., a greater god had to have at least XX number of worshipers, etc....

two weeks shy of 60. Discovered D&D in college when I was 20. It's been a long fun trip...

I didn't really like any edition after 2E, but I did like how they finally fixed that 'AC runs backwards' thing...

I was roughly in the middle of my gaming years when 2E came out, and there were some things I wanted to see done that weren't. I wanted an end to level limits for non-humans (or at least more generous ones), a revamping but still included barbarian and cavalier, and most of all, a complete...

I had them all (emphasis on 'had'), but the only one I ever used was the Viking one for a couple of one-shots...

I'm not I'd trust anything a kobold gave me, especially if he claimed it was a healing potion...

I'd have to go with option 2 and 1E; a lot of it is nostalgia, and I never played any editions after 2E, but I have a LOT of fond memories of those early days of D&D...

nice story, but now I'm wondering how she took any baths while waiting for those things to dissolve...

Kits were one way getting back some of the classes lost from 1E. Missing the samurai from OA? There was a kit for it. Barbarian? Cavalier? Acrobat? Kits could do them all.

never did a whole campaign, but I did do a couple of one shot Viking ones; one, where they went to England and fought the Black Worm of the Barrow to get some magical doodad, and another where they went to Long Island in pursuit of a renegade who had taken refuge with a tribe of Skraelings led...

way way back in the early days of D&D, when I didn't really know anything about the game other than "hey, these miniatures look pretty neat", I bought the old 'blue book' set to find out what it was all about, and ran in a couple of sessions. Not much later, I figured out that there was an AD&D...

okay, maybe it's just me, but I always rather liked the danger of being a low level PC in 1E/2E... you had to be sneaky and thoughtful and really plan things out... and sometimes you just bit the dust through bad luck. Making it up to levels 4 and beyond was a real accomplishment...

My whole gaming career was in 1E and 2E... 2E was a perfectly fine set of rules... with some tweaking. I was annoyed at some of the things cut from 1E, so I worked out having monks and barbarians into the game, left demons and devils and all the other fiends as is with no name changes, etc...

I used the "heart of darkness" plot too, although it was more 'insane ex-paladin takes over a band of lizardmen and does bad things' Other movies: Zulu, with goblins standing in for the Zulus Fire and Ice, with the PCs accidentally time traveling back to the Stone Age of Faerun in pursuit of an...

during my 2E gaming days, I was the DM nearly all the time, and the only real 'house rule' I can recall at the moment was 'max hp at 1st level', which seemed to be pretty common. I did keep the 1E barbarian and monk around for a few adventures, but as NPCs only...

back when I first started playing in 1E days, my group had a general problem of 'nobody wanted to play the cleric'. So we usually had NPC clerics in the party, and services available in cities... sometimes. It depended a lot on the city. The big ones were generally considered to have clerics...

have to go with 'sometimes'. Most of my GM campaigns were set in the WoG; I made good use of everything they put out at first, but ignored everything to do with the Greyhawk Wars...