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Despite all the later non game issues, you should feel regret at not having read Empire of the Petal Throne. I've read nearly everything for it. There is no setting to compare. It is the most compelling world ever created. Both Gygax and Arneson praised it highly. Yeah, getting graph paper was...

Everything happens at once and everyone gets their shot in. Combat attacks all happen and spell results are applied at the end of the round. Very simple and fast.

I just have my own way of doing things. You would need to experience how I run to understand it. I run groups as big as 15 PCs sometimes. Combat is fast and furious. (Why I do not use initiative in my games as it slows things down.) My preference is to have everything on paper so the player...

It is always a choice of what you want in your game. So it really does come down to personal taste. I want my players to be immersed in their own heads instead of looking at minis and a battle mat. I've played both styles and I like both styles for variety. In my own campign I do not want a...

It depends on how old the gamers were in a group. My first group were teens, I was oldest at 14, and they only wanted to go to the dungeon. As the one who got bullied into being the DM I lasted maybe a year doing that. I had to abandon that group and find slightly older gamers who wanted to do...

I play how I've always played and use Parallel Actions. I had a chance to sit in with Bob Meyer running his version of Blackmoor and he claimed he ran his game like Arneson. He too used Parallel Actions. It goes back to the 1 minute combat round idea of OD&D where everyone can do something...

Probably the module for Dragon Quest: Enchanted Wood by Jaquays. It may be the most interesting module for a game I've ever seen.

Just a heads up in here for the The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg. Go to the link for more info: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/secretsofblackmoor/the-lost-dungeons-of-tonisborg Glad to answer any questions. Thanks, Griff

One of the oldest Mega-Dungeons ever created, Greg Svenson's Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg is now available again. We're running a KickStarter for it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/secretsofblackmoor/the-lost-dungeons-of-tonisborg Feel free to ask questions about the book. Or, future...

Of the 6 people who were in the room when Arneson demonstrated Blackmoor in Lake Geneva all of them seem to think they were seeing something very novel. Gary Gygax was taken with the concept immediately and tried to copy it with Rob Kuntz the next day unsuccessfully. Rob Kuntz describes how...

History has this odd way of just being a set of facts. Dave Arneson had this crazy idea and invented a game that all of you play in one form or another. Go read the forward to the D&D supplement 2 - Blackmoor, where Gary Gygax says that Blackmoor was the first D&D campaign. It's funny, in our...

This is truly wonderful data. Gonna have to get a copy of this book.

Sorry, I don't visit this forum much. The film is currently only avialable on Vimeo. You can link through our site: https://www.secretsofblackmoor.com Don't forget to check our store out for groovy old school RPG stuff: https://store.secretsofblackmoor.com 2nd printings of Tonisborg Dungeon...

Sorry about us not being on Amazon. Amazon pulled all the indie documentaries that were not submitted via distribution agents a couple years ago. We have petitioned to have the film put back up to no avail. We are on Vimeo, you can link through our site: https://www.secretsofblackmoor.com...

It depends on whic group I am running. Generally speaking it's 3LBBs with some minor home rules. Sometimes some Holmes Blue Book and Supplements. Mostly it's just old school '70s era D&D fun.

Blog post about a letter from Gygax to Arneson in 1973. https://www.secretsofblackmoor.com/blog/come-for-another-visit-soon-gary

Exactly! It's 1d6 for everything. I run 3 LBBs D&D. I do massive dungeon crawls in the traditional way. No minis. Just verbal and imagination. If all you look at is the damage value, you won't understand how OD&D is designed for abstraction and elegance. I did a big analysis of how OD&D...

I don't know about this site and how old it is. I hate to admit I'm old. I've been playing D&D on computer since this game.

I have no idea what anyone is saying. I play OD&D. :p In my games inspiration isn't a die roll, it comes from caffeine. Who is this Merc Marcer whipper snapper? Where's my hearing aide? Character Death is Good!

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