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I consider D&D as pulp in the Conan sense once you get enough hp to survive a few hits and be an action hero and seek out fights instead of skulking and actively avoiding them. I have done D&D with a tone of Army of Darkness and Indiana Jones in a fantasy world and had it go well. It is my...

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I find it useful to have as many constant modifiers already factored in and only adjust for the few applicable situational modifiers than to have to factor in all the modifiers separately each time. 1e THAC0 as a single number is workable (say the monster stat appendix in the 1e DMG). I find...

FA1 Halls of the High King (2e) 2e Bonebat: Bonebats are not thought to ever occur naturally, but the secrets of their making have been known in the Realms for a very long time, and many are now found "in the wild." Bonebats are usually constructed by evil priests and wizards working together...

Right, as I said. :) Right, you have to add the modifiers to your roll in both. In AAC however you do one less step, you add all the modifiers to your roll and you get the AC you hit. You don't need to look it up in the chart to see what AC you hit. A small difference but I found repeated...

I'm not sure how you are saying this is different from 1e. In both stuff like applicable dex bonuses versus strength bonuses, magic bonuses on individual weapons, weapon specialization, etc. could make the base THAC0/attack bonus different for different attacks. For instance here is something I...

3e power attack feat was pretty common allowing different adjustments every round and 3e barbarian rage and bardic inspiration were core easy ways to get temporary bonuses along with a bunch of more common buff spells compared to 1e IME. 4e built buffs into a lot of class powers with granting...

Was there a 1e elevation/high ground bonus? I know 3.0 and 3.5 had a +1 bonus for being on higher ground. I don't remember one in 1e but a lot of 1e rules were in weird one off spots in the books.

Common situational modifiers for my 1e games that could change round to round were things like the +4 for backstabbing (two assassins in my years long 1e campaign), +2 for rear attacks (DMG 70), the +2 for charging (DMG 66), and the page PH 38 and DMG 28 adjustments for weapons versus specific...

Having the specific character chart with all modifiers already thrown in is more effort at the front end and less effort once that work is done. Such charts can be equally easily done with both THAC0 and ascending AC. Ascending AC is generally easier to do the math in your head though so the...

Adding a +3 bonus is finding the THAC0 roll result on the chart and then counting over three places in the right direction. That last part is still math :)

Empires of the Shining Sea (2e) 2e Undead, Coinless Dead, Undead Being: A gold and silver coin each on a dead person's eyes keep that person in the grave, for with them that person can pay for passage to the Underworlds and still have wealth. Undead are the coinless dead who wander in anger of...

I missed that you said the 1e Greyhawk Folio and not the 1e Boxed Set. The folio has no gods whatsoever, so it is up to the DM to fill that in for themselves including with all the religious theocratic countries as is. You could go with later Greyhawk canon for such or go with your own...

Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Game 2e Undead, Undead Creature, Undead Monster: ? Ghost of a Young Woman: ? Ghoul, Disgusting Undead Ghoul: Anyone killed by a ghoul rises as a ghoul controlled by the DM the next night. Shadow: ? Skeleton: Skeletons can be animated by evil wizards and priests to...

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Ooh, good choices all. Aerth has really cool history I like a lot and incorporate into my homebrew mashup as a minor background element. A prior age of dwarf and elf and humanoid dominance replaced by the current human one, and the fairly distinct and unique past ancient empires of sphixes and...

DSS1 City-State of Tyr (2e) 2e Undead: ? Undead War Beetle: Strom Rarvin owns and operates Tyr's largest wagon manufacture and repair facility. Two large buildings south of the Brickyards are used by Strom and his two sons. The Rarvins are well known for their workmanship. Their shop produces...

DSR3 Veiled Alliance (2e) 2e Ghost: ? Portynx, The Shadow Tree, Ghost Defiler 12, Incorporeal Defiler, Duplicitous Irrational Ghost, Thinking Undead: Perhaps because he had died trying to drain life from others to nourish his own, Portynx in death had grown fond of the essence of the trees of...

My top four that I integrate into my mashup homebrew setting. Ptolus, theocratic empire civil war is a great backdrop and reason local things are up to the PCs to handle. Great setup for D&D Catholic Church alongside D&D polytheism. Golarion, great kitchen sink of fun diverse strongly themed...