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Amici, So I've been working on combining all Wilderlands maps into one Campaign Map Zero. Now, consulting numerous sources I've been able to find what most things on the various maps are, but the meaning of some "entries" on the map for the City State of the Invincible Overlord continues to...

¡Hola! L’histoire se répète, as we say in my neck of the woods ever since it fell out of fashion to quote… never mind. So I decided to substitute the gremlins in F’Chelrak’s Tomb for a crypt thing that would “teleport PCs to the end of the world”, on a roll of “00” on percentile dice just to...

Esteemed friends, Because I'm required to see what's what in the Elphand Lands, I've been digging through some early Judges Guild publications and I've noticed several abbreviations for what I assume to be AD&D 1E character classes in many of them. I've found a list of all of them on page 10...

I'm not quite sure how to go about this, so I'll try it this way first. Some quotes I'd inserted in a post have suddenly disappeared. I've since restarted my apparatus but this hadn't led to a change. Is there an obvious reason for this phenomenon I'm missing?

WotC backs down Well, that's a triple one-eighty if ever I saw one ... with sugar on top. So WTL just happened here? Civitas ad portas? A palace revolution? Plan B?

An Adventure in Five Acts – Prelude The Forest The Forest is a kingdom that comprises the entirety of a single, lone island in a vast ocean with no end. It has a culture not dissimilar to that of Late Anglo-Saxon England or Ireland (early 800s), with similar myths, legends, and tech level. The...

Liebe Freunde, Here's another one. I have been trying to come up with an inclusive description of the 2E (Priest) version of Astral Spell, as based on the information in D&DI (p. 28) PHB1 (p. 52), DMG1 (p. 42), MotP (p. 60-61), PHB89 (p. 231), PHB95 (p. 293), DMGOR1 (p. 69-70), and PSC1 (p...

Amici, Having had to roll up some sages recently, I am having trouble deciding how many levels/Hit Dice a sage has, mainly for the purpose of calculating XP and determining saving throws. DMG1 p. 32 says that sages have 8d4 hit points. Does that make them 8-HD/level creatures? That seems a lot...

Mes amis, When the players started asking whether there were “any cities in the vicinity?” of the randomly generated old-school dungeon* I’ve been running for some time, I winged it and said that there was one called Carse, which I remembered from when I started playing AD&D way, way back when...

Friends, For your consideration, ilgatto

Friends, Here's some AD&D 2E Wizard spells and Bard songs. Regards, ilgatto

Dear friends, Not sure whether this is the way to do it - forum rules and all that - but I am looking for Steven M. Kurtz, who seems to have worked at/for TSR in the early 1990s on various source books for the Al-Qadim setting and who also was the author of Thiondar's Legacy and the co-author...

Hello all, In which has become a rather lengthy project, I've been trying to collect all monsters ever published for OD&D, AD&D 1E, and AD&D 2E into what is rapidly becoming a monstrously huge monstrous manual. This volume will only contain monsters published in 'official' TSR sources (e.g...

Hi there, Perhaps a bit of a long shot but can anybody provide me with the original texts describing the following OD&D/AD&D1E monsters in certain - very early - issues of Alarums & Excursions (APA)? BANTH, by Jason R. Saylor and Rodney Tobar BLACK LEECH, by Larry Stehle BOGY, by Bear Hedberg...

Looking into the artwork as featured in early White Dwarf Magazines (e.g., cover wd34, cover wd40; perhaps the faerie denizens in wd38?), I've come across an artist that is only known as Emmanuel. A somewhat extended search on the www led to precious little information, most notably that he was...