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Wilderlands of High Fantasy, Mystara, Midkemia, Tekumel, Sanctuary / Thieves World, Haven the Free City / Thieves Guild, Kara-Tur, Dragonlance, Spelljammer, and Ptolus. Still itching to do Lankhmar, Arduin, Barsoom and Middle Earth. And all that is more material than I could play in a lifetime!

The printing I'm looking at, which includes Cthulhu and Melnibone, and identifies itself simply as Copyright 1980 -- TSR Games, states the following on page four under Credits and Acknowledgements: Special thanks are also given to Chaosium, Inc. for permission to use the material found in the...

Gaming since the 70's, the longest-running campaign I ran lasted for twenty years. I've set up a few groups since moving back to Southern California, although none are currently active. Now looking for other GMs and players to get back into it. At this point I'm looking to play Classic...

Olaf, there are only so many hours in a day. Realistically, in a hobby where a game is a huge investment in time on the part of a whole group of people, it's much more common cto only play a few games. And games games are expensive enough that it makes little sense to throw money away on games...

In no order: 1st ed AD&D, Classic Traveller, Chaosium 2nd ed Runequest, Gamma World 1st and 2nd ed, Call of Cthulhu, any edition but the new one, Stormbringer 1st ed, FASA Star Trek, Metamorphosis Alpha 1st ed, Fading Suns 2nd ed, Paranoia 1st ed.

I started with Holmes. Then moved to 1st ed AD&D as the books came out. I played with a lot of different groups in three states. Basic was labeled "Basic." That's how we saw it. We were happy to pilf their modules if one looked good. Upon looking the rules over, we only saw justification for...

There are 3 editions. all out of print. 1st ran for many years, under GW and then Hogshead Publishing. It's an alternative to D&D, with careers instead of classes. The magic system was not loved. but the setting is the draw, European grimdark. 2nd ed is a revision with lots of supplements and...

Interesting read. I'd already read a bunch of Shannon's history posts onliine. Didn't even hear about the Mongoose hardcopy. I don't think I'll be buying the new history at $85 for the set, but I did pledge a dollar to read the 70's section.

Judges Guild had something more extensive on encountering women.

That's really good! Anyone know who this guy is?

I was going to mention the Creature Crucible entry. There was also some stuff in the Modron city supplement from Judges Guild, but not as extensive as I think you would like.

As often happens, this debate is an example of deliberately taking an extreme position, and choosing to 'misunderstand' what others are saying. There is a certain amount of fun in assembling a dungeon randomly, but isn't 'designing' a dungeon instead of rolling it randomly cheating? ;) All...

It's a nice magazine, very reminiscent of Dragon back in the old day. I supported their efforts with a 1 yr subscription, and I think the pdf they just sent me is #4, the last of my sub. $10 each is a lot to pay for a magazine, although I suppose there's a break on a sub deal. I enjoy the...

If I pick up an adventure module, I'm looking for ways to save time. Sometimes to get a better idea of what the game system or setting will support. Once I've read it, if I like it, I am most likely to customize it to suit my own tastes. However I will use what I can as a time-saver. Obviously...

These days I'm a fan of poison doing a damage roll. For a bottled poison, as well as for a monster sting or bite. Save or die is too much.

This is a very good point, IMO. I hadn't really thought of it in this way before, although I've used that way of thinking with d100 skill-based games on a regular basis. To put things in perspective, I'm an old-time player from the 70's who still plays 1st ed AD&D. I only just discovered the...

As someone already posted, they're "reasonably common." I play 1st ed AD&D. Reading the rules gave us the idea. And it's nice for a player character to have some muscle of his own to protect him; other players are notoriously unreliable. Has it ever come up in other games? Well, pets, NPC's...

It's been a few years, but Fading Suns (I was playing 2nd edition) had fencing rules.

Modron from JG? Or Thunderhold? Heck, I usually just use the City-state. Dearthwood full of orcs, ruins, swamps, caravan route, Howling Hills, river pirates, merpeople in the estuary, marauding vikings...

Running another Isle of Dread session in the 1st ed game I run for my daughter.