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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darjr" data-source="post: 8820113" data-attributes="member: 52905">I'm going to grab several days in a single post. Note if you like Alex sharing this stuff let him know? A like on one of his posts or go to <a href="https://t.co/70mcNI543w" target="_blank">Gameholecon.</a>If or when he moves from Twitter pending it's implosion I'll try and follow him.<h2>D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa</h2>[callout]We continue with some pretty iconic D&D releases from the year 1978. Up today we have D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa. This was before my time as the 1981 D1-2 module was the printing I remember as a kid. Anyway, here are my shrink 1st and 2nd printings and the AUS printing just for fun[/callout][ATTACH=full]265969[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]265970[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]265971[/ATTACH]<a href="https://twitter.com/GHC_and_Tacos/status/1503769448251105281?s=20&t=KTavkH6wLoPurXlJzuzejQ" target="_blank">link</a>I think it's very interesting that at the very begining of tournament play the best path through one event was a non-violent path. Now that IS part of D&D tradition![callout]However the most points went to parties that pursued the "perfect" path, which appears to have involved moving nonviolently through the shrine. Points were also awarded for slaying kuo-toa and for surviving the experience.[/callout]Found here at the DMSGuild via my affiliate <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/17042/D2-Shrine-of-the-KuoToa-1e?affiliate_id=182934" target="_blank">link</a>. The histories there really are a wealth of knowledge and a treasure.Non affiliate <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/17042/D2-Shrine-of-the-KuoToa-1e" target="_blank">link</a><h2>D3 Vault of the Drow</h2>[callout]TSR was still a fledgling company back in 1978 so there were not a lot of D&D releases that year. We are rapidly approaching the end of that year's products. Up today we have the conclusion of the "D" series, D3 Vault of the Drow. Here are my shrink 1st printing and my shrink 4th[/callout][ATTACH=full]265973[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]265972[/ATTACH]<a href="https://twitter.com/GHC_and_Tacos/status/1504117034266808320?s=20&t=KTavkH6wLoPurXlJzuzejQ" target="_blank">link</a>I find it interesting that these adventures were written as a break from writing AD&D for Gary Gygax. Might be a clue there to why they were so great.Again the D&D historian on the DMSGuild has cool history for us.[callout]During his lifetime, Gygax offered a few different sources for his drow. Ultimately, they're probably derived from the Svartálfaheimr — the dark elves of Norse mythology. Ironically, when the drow were printed up in the Fiend Folio (1980), that book also contained the "xvart," which had been called the "svart" when published in White Dwarf #9 (October/November 1978) and which were thus another Svartálfaheimr derivative.[/callout]<a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/17043/D3-Vault-of-the-Drow-1e?term=D3+Vault&affiliate_id=182934" target="_blank">DMSGuild affiliate link</a><a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/17043/D3-Vault-of-the-Drow-1e?term=D3+Vault" target="_blank">And non Affiliate link</a></blockquote>

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