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I would say my campaigns are usually either pre or no apocalypse with plots that could result in apocalypse or no apocalypse. My mashup setting uses a bunch of prior apocalypses as past history to give a bunch of Conan style rise and falls of prior civilizations with things like Freeport’s Yig...

Microlite Storytelling (1025) Microlite20 Vampire: Vampires are created when a mortal and a vampire trade blood. Strong Vampire, Gangrel: ? Nimble Vampire, Nosferatu: ? Wise Vampire, Mekhet: ? Determined Vampire, Lasombra: ? Lordly Vampire, Ventrue: ? Charming Vampire, Daeva: ?

I expect WotC feel Fizban's Treasury of Dragons has got them covered for that topic area.

The Core 3.5 MM gives you five chromatics, five metallics, dragon turtle, dragonne, pseudodragon, and wyvern. The 3.5 Draconomicon gives you eight elemental drakes, faerie dragon, fang dragon, felldrake, nine landwyrms, ten planar dragons, shadow dragon, the squamous spewer, and the storm drake.

This is easy to do using standard D&D. Five chromatics and five metallics gives you 10 unique dragons for your campaign/setting. That is before getting into the dragon turtle, the planar dragons, the gem dragons, the linnorms, the lungs, and all the oddball dragons in various editions and...

Owl Hoot Trail (1003) Microlite20 Undead: ? Mummy: ? Skeleton, Undead Skeleton: Greater Dead Spirits shaman power. Spectre: ? Vampire: ? Zombie, Undead Zombie: Greater Dead Spirits shaman power. Shaman 4th Rank Spirits Greater Dead Spirits: Creates level x 2 total levels of undead skeletons or...

Eh, I think plenty expected to play past 9th level. The very first module G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief suggests nine at least 9th level PCs and has predone characters ranging from 9th to 14th level (plus Fonkin Hoddypeak elven multiclass 5/8 fighter MU with a -4 AC).

They also got an extra attack per round per level against goblins and kobolds and other humanoids with less than 1 HD. :) The actual big one for 1e PH fighters after name level at 9th is gaining that full second attack per round at 13th level.

2e was fantastic for this: Complete Priest's Handbook (introduces forces and philosophies, and underpowered followers of generic archetype gods) Legends & Lore Fleshes out the 1e Deities & Demigods human pantheons with much more lore, including nontheistic Taoist and Confucian spellcasting...

Spells have generally always been adjusted downward as editions progress. Oe 1st level charm person generally makes the person your permanent slave if they miss their save. The duration and effects have gone down and changed each edition. Charm Person: This spell applies to all two-legged...

There is the earlier 2e not-FR specific Monster Mythology which does that. Not done by Realms expert Eric Boyd but by Carl Sargent it is more a monster pantheon version of 2e Legends and Lore than the 2e FR Demihuman Deities but it is still quite good and will give you a bunch of lore on the...

SpyLite (915) Microlite20 Zombie: ?

Yeah but there is no shocking grasp spell in B/X, just in AD&D where they have a whole section of DMG rules on casting in melee.

I think you are missing some big points on the page 65's SPELL CASTING DURING MELEE section and page 70's motionless opponent rules. "It can thus be understood that spell casting during a melee can be a tricky business, for a mere shove at any time can spoil the dweomer! Any spell can be...

Is there otherwise a way to cast and attack in the same round in B/X that this would prevent? Your interpretation is you are not fighting if someone is attacking you and you cast a cause light wounds spell to attack them back with it? :) Interpreting it as not being engaged in melee does cause...

This was probably the best bang for the buck gaming purchase I made, $25 for 250 issues. I still use it today, searching across issues to look up specific stuff like Greenwood's Down to Earth Divinities article on creating the pantheons for FR is fantastic.

I don't mind electronic versions. :) I had never heard of this. Are the PDFs still around?

That is the way 2e does it using their d10 initiative, roll a d10, add modifiers for individual actions (casting time, weapon speed) lowest goes first (with special things like multiple fighter attacks going at the start and end around the initiative numbers). I know that is the case in Moldvay...

Talking about spellcasting and initiative in another thread got me thinking about how much of a threat attacks to spellcasting have changed since 1e. 1e has 10 segment rounds and casting time in segments. Usually one segment per spell level (with power words only taking 1 segment, and oddball...