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    Why did early editions of D&D rely on Treasure for experience points?

    I am a newbie DM, and haven't hosted a game yet, but am curious (after reading stuff on the web for past couple weeks), why did early editions rely on treasure to get experience points? Later editions don't reward nearly as much treasure right? Is it because you were to avoid fighting with...
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    Crafted my own D2 (photo)

    I ordered some blank white dice from Amazon (50 of them for around $12). Lightly sanded each side rubbing dice on sandpaper on flat surface. Then cleaned off, washed, rinsed etc. Printed out the artwork (usually on my color printer but this one was black and white), then I covered with...
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    Basic Fantasy RPG Box Set?

    Just teasing, I made that by covering my 5e starter set. Wasn't impressed with 5e, was going to go with Moldvay (studied it a lot lately -- but ended up finding out about Basic Fantasy and I am gonna roll with that). So I made this box set for it :) Here it is just before finishing: I...
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    Calcutating a Monster's THAC0 in Classic Dungeons & Dragons

    I am reading the Moldvay Basic Dungeons & Dragons book, about to do some of my first DM'ing with it. I am going to make a "monster card" for each and every monster in my dungeon which has all the stats that are in the monster section of the book, but along with another stat to make things easy...
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    Recently bought 5.0, being drawn to 1981 Moldvay Basic

    My first exposure to D&D was as a player back some 32 years ago, with the Mentzer basic set. I only played a few games, but was hooked. I wanted to DM back then but ended up not doing it. Here I am 32 years later, just recently acquiring the 5.0 starter set, then downloading the Basic...
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    D&D 5E Princes of the Apocalypse or Hoard of the Dragon Queen

    Hello, this is my first post here -- or any RPG web site for that matter. I played Dungeons and Dragons (Basic) a few times when I was a child and really enjoyed the experience. I ended up finally getting my own player's handbook and dungeon masters guide at Target with intentions of possibly...
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