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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...

Heads or Tails? :)

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...

Thanks Chris, loving BFRPG :)

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...

Yeah I don't know why I overcomplicated things. Basically my set of formulas just creates that chart lol. So AD&D 1e makes use of the same chart Basic/Expert does then.. Figured there was THAC0 listed in the monster manual of 1e, I know it is for 2e. Thanks for the help. Seems like the way...

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...

Well that was a good deal! Very nice. I just printed out the Moldvay Basic (64 pages) and had it spiral bound so I can fold it on itself. I'm just gonna go with this since there are such few rules. I don't feel intimidated by it. Once I get DM'ing down with the Moldvay Basic, instead of...

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...

Thanks, I enjoyed reading your post. I'm for whatever module would be the easiest for me to DM.. since I am newb, I am thinking Hoard (with Eratta corrected). Since I'd be a PC as well (along with my nephew), I'd probably get lost in sandboxes as well. Linear sounds the easiest for a...

If the fighter is in front of a cleric in a narrow hall (5 feet wide let's say), can a goblin in front of the fighter pass through the fighter and hit the cleric? narrow halls can be used for effectively tanking right? The fighter and cleric could run back to a corridor once they spot some...

Along with the non-basic bound DMG, I have the Basic Player's Handbook Rules, which covers just the Warrior, Cleric, Wizard, & Thief. This is just fine by me, because that's what the basic D&D had when I first played it back in 1983. It keeps things more simple and less intimidating to me...

But I guess I could get a list of all the errata out there and write it in the hoard book as well making it then a perfect book?

Thanks for the replies. I have another question, regarding Phandelver--our first adventure. Since it is going to be just the two of us at the start, should we just run two characters (instead of the two each I was thinking of)? -- four seems kind of overwhelming. Perhaps I could let him play...