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I got into D&D about 1980, when it was all pretty new, and played in campaigns off and on until 2E came out. I remember it fondly, as it was something new and shiny and imaginative. But... yeah, it had problems. Not organized all that well, loads of rules that were often ignored, some...

IIRC, you can get around Acererak by... ignoring him. I don't think the whole 'skull draining your soul' thing happens unless someone touches it. Don't touch it, it stays put. Then there is the 'dust turning into a ghost' thing, but again, if you ignore it, it doesn't do anything. Of course...

"Isle of the Ape" was also written as a 'teach humility to high level PCs' adventure. It didn't have quite so many 'save or die/choose correctly or die' moments as ToH though...

looking at the 5E PHB, I see that they upped the damage from 1-3 to 1-6. Add that in with 5Es notorious skills, feats, and whatnot, and I begin to see the problem...

in 2E, hand crossbows cost 300 gp, a rather big amount to pay for that tiny amount of damage... I had a character who used one in 1E days, before there were any official rules for them other than the notes on the Drow in the GDQ modules... I think we decided it would cost the same as a light...

uh... are hand crossbows way more lethal in later editions or something? In 1E/2E, they weren't much, and making a +2 version wouldn't disrupt a campaign at all. in 2E, they did a whopping 1-3/1-2 damage and could fire once per round.

I've done #1 several times; although with not-intelligent apes (based it loosely on Michael Chrichton's 'Congo" novel). And with evil dwarves, a mad elephant-ish demi-god, prehistoric lizard archmages, dimensionally lost Romans, and other assorted oddities. I was always a sucker for 'lost city...

B4 is interesting in that you can use either just half of it, or use it for a whole underground campaign. The top half of the buried pyramid is detailed and interesting and can be an adventure by itself. Or you can use the bottom half (which isn't detailed all that well, but hey) and keep the...

I've seen just about every version of King Solomon's Mines (including the 1937 version), and all of them are annoying in one way... they all leave out the most interesting part of the novel: the civil war in the native kingdom. Really, how do you adopt a novel to a movie and leave out the most...

maybe, but explain Mameena :P

and yet, he managed to marry two beautiful women and was loved by another....

B2. One of the most 'this was the first adventure I played in' type of modules ever, back in the day. I1. My favorite module. Lost city, jungle, weird opponents.... what's not to love? T1. Another 'first adventure ever', and a classic. G1 (2,3)... they're short enough that you can lump them...

one of my favorite fictional characters... I have all the books about him and wish there were more...

I think I recognize some of those minis.... if I'm not mistaken, there are some really old Heritage gnomes and hill giant, some RP gnollls.... some of the men at arms with kite shields look familiar, but I'm not placing who made them...

nice. Wouldn't have worked for the last group I was in.... had me DMing for 7 players... 2 married couples and 3 singles. Luckily, the married couples both lived in the on campus housing, and they had fair sized living rooms with enough chairs for everyone (once we all pitched in on some...

the last time I was an active DM... I used to design them at the kitchen table. Because I was living in a pretty small and cramped trailer, and it was the only space big enough to spread out my books and papers...

as an aside from the current controversy... I have to admit, I was surprised to hear that JG was still around... I thought they'd disappeared years ago...

sometimes. I found that if the mage actually hurt one of the enemies, that enemy would go out of it's way to attack him/her, ignoring the warriors pounding on him with swords, even if that enemy had to go around the rest of the party to get to him/her. It wasn't a problem in smaller/tighter...

hardly ever used city based adventures.... usually had the town/city as the place to heal up and sell/buy stuff. All the dungeons and wilderness adventures were way out in the boonies....

I think some of them are from "The Scarlet Brotherhood"....