Anybody remember the "Warlock" supplement?

[Autumnal]

Yup. There’s what they ran at the Caltech gaming club ran in 1977 and therefore what we high schoolers in their orbit played. I remember parts of it very clearly, like the spell points and percentile skills and vast page of weapon vs armor type matrix, and others not at all, mostly because they never came up in our play. In clarity it was certainly light years ahead of AD&D 1e, then in the process of coming out, but that’s a low bar for clarity.

 

[aramis erak]

When I was a boy playing d&d in the late 70s, the group of college kids I played with used a supplement called "Warlock". I can't find any references to it on the net.

Anybody remember this? The cover had a dragon reared up and a wizard (err... warlock) on a rocky pinnacle near the dragon's head.

There are several oldies in the RPGGeek database; I used a cutoff of 1990

The Complete Warlock

User summary: The Complete Warlock 'variant' D&D system, including alternative experience tables, new rules for the various races and a spell point system for magic. The Complete Warlock presents a complete rules set. The game assumes players already are familiar with D&D, but access to D&D...

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Warlock's Menagerie

Cover says: The Warlock Menagerie A Supplement for Fantasy Games. Especially "The Complete Warlock" The third and final book of The Complete Warlock series. This book focused on monsters.

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Warlock's Tower

The second book of The Complete Warlock. This supplement contained advanced rules for dealing with magic items and extended the experience tables from the previous book and added some rules for monsters. Also included some new thief and cleric rules as well.

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Lair of the Warlock

Publisher's blurb: This dungeon's simply called Lair of the Warlock. It was created to serve as an introductory adventure for starting PC's. This one lacks the stats for the Big Bad (a magic-user by the name of "Maczaar"), but any third- or fourth-level M-U NPC should do.

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In the 90's, there are two RPGs with the name including Warlock prominently, one is not in english.

 

[jdrakeh]

Not only am I familiar with it, but I've played it (it might be where my user title comes from)! It was still played by CalTech students as recently as a decade ago and you could download the rules in both PDF and Word format online (first from a Yahoo Group and, when those went away, from a private website maintained by a player). Most of those files are now gone forever, though.

 

[Nutation]

Not only am I familiar with it, but I've played it (it might be where my user title comes from)! It was still played by CalTech students as recently as a decade ago and you could download the rules in both PDF and Word format online (first from a Yahoo Group and, when those went away, from a private website maintained by a player). Most of those files are now gone forever, though.

Still being played in the Los Angeles area by me and others, though not at Caltech. It started as original D&D, was immediately house-ruled, and grew into its own thing.

 

[jdrakeh]

I still have the PDFs and would love to revisit it. I converted Rob Conley's Blackmarsh setting for use with Warlock. I dumped countless hours into that and setting up a campaign. Sadly, I didn't get to play it as much as I'd like to. Getting players for anything other than D&D 5e around here is a feat.

 

[darjr]

I still have the PDFs and would love to revisit it. I converted Rob Conley's Blackmarsh setting for use with Warlock. I dumped countless hours into that and setting up a campaign. Sadly, I didn't get to play it as much as I'd like to. Getting players for anything other than D&D 5e around here is a feat.

Do you still have these?

 

[jdrakeh]

Do you still have these?

I do. I never get rid of anything.

 

[darjr]

I do. I never get rid of anything.

I was watching this and got very interested in it. I knew of it before but never sought out a copy.

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

Grodog, thanks for that link. My countless googlings have been fruitless, but this is indeed the book that was at the table:

Great blast from the past. Thank you.

Oh, I remember that. Never owned it, but it was floating around the table in one of the early D&D games I played in, so the DM may have been cribbing stuff from it. Nostalgic image, at least.

I do. I never get rid of anything.

Cripes, don't jinx yourself like that. I used to say the exact same thing until the first apartment fire. Broke my spirit, that did.