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For those who want the OD&D experience, but can't find/afford the original rules: D&D Basic Set (Moldvay) and D&D Expert Set (Cook/Marsh) combine to be almost the same thing. All you'd be missing is much of the peripheral stuff from The Strategic Review and later supplements, plus a few spells...

:eek: For the love of all that's Holy, let me know when you're ready to get rid of those bad boys before doing anything rash!!!

Congragulations Crothian! I hope you get years of enjoyment from my favorite game. Abilities were always listed in order of importance. The most important were the three prime requisites (STR, INT, WIS), every character needed good CON to survive well, but DEX and CHA came in last. That changed...

The six scores were rated thus: Low score is 3-8; Average is 9-12; High is 13-18. Their purpose was to allow a Referee some abstract measure of each PC's abitilty to accomplish things not related to combat. When it came to climbing, swimming, influencing, sneaking, constuction, etc., etc., the...

Check here for some additional insight: http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16189 A basic summary: OD&D Classes (in very rough order of appearance): Fighting-Man Magic-User Cleric Thief Paladin Ranger Bard Illusionist Monk Assassin Druid Witch OD&D races: Human (default) Elf...

Thanks for the quick and insightful reply. I wish I lived in Lake Geneva, you'd have a hard time keeping me away Thursday nights!

Howdy Gary, hope life is still swell so far and your gaming is more fun than ever! In looking at your spots in old issues of The Dragon (c. '75+), you've always held that there should be two D&Ds: the newer "Law Schick" AD&D rules for tornament and comparitive play, and the original game as a...

As far as I know, Land of the Dead was the only Romero film to use the term "zombie". I know the creatures were referred to as ghouls in Night of the Living Dead, but zombie is more a term for Vodoo. The term ghouls fits any living being who consumes their own dead, or any dead being who...

These two women slam-banged me through puberty in record time! I swear Morgan must have nipples of STEEL!

:D Ditto, I couldn't get online yesterday, so Llaurenela beat me to it! I hope you have a FANTASTIC time at the convention (wish I could be there...)!:D

Quick question for you Gary: When you first started playing Chainmail, do you remember what scenarios/battles or armies were easiest or most fun to play (both realistic and fantasy)?

It's true, I'm physically still a pup; but my screen name is an idication of my soul, not my heart. The best game I've ever played (and ever will) is your Dungeons & Dragons (c. 1974)! That reminds me, in Monsters & Treasure, magic swords are indicated as the only items with intelligence. Is...

Heh, I was born in 1972!

Ok, gotta vent a little. Try not to make too much sense of this, I'm just going off on a thread-ispired tangent: Freedom is seen to be good by many people, but if they actually have it, it terrifies them. Witness seat belt laws: Mere decades ago, kids could ride in the back of pick-ups in a...

AMEN!

Your first point is well taken, Hasbro does indeed own the D&D brand. As far as your say not being official; Well, you're just plain d*mn wrong. To thousands (if not millions) of gamers around the world, it doesn't matter who owns the name, you'll always own The Game. You created it and too many...

Thanks for the reply regarding creature inspirations. Apparently, kobolds are goblin-like, and it was the illustration that lead to their current "reptilian" nature. Facinating stuff! I actually like hyenas, so gnolls are one of my favorite humanoids. Sometimes I just wish they weren't quite so...

Hi Gary, I've a general question regarding many of your creature concepts, as far as how they came about and/or changed over the years. Kobolds: did they always look like lil' dog-lizards, or were they originally just a lesser form of goblin? Hobgoblins: I've always known hobgoblins as being...

OK, so experience is 1 per gold piece worth of goods, I got that. But what about monsters? If you're still using just the three original booklets to game with OD&D, do you award 100 XP per monster level defeated (as insinuated in said booklets), or do you use a more traditional table from the...

Gary, is this still the way you prefer to play original D&D? Bonus question: Do you have such house rules for original Advanced D&D or Legendary Adventures?