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<blockquote data-quote="atanakar" data-source="post: 7935830" data-attributes="member: 65762"><p>In the early 80s I knew a DM who owned the white books but he never offered to play. We were already playing AD&D at the time.</p><p></p><p>I played a single game of Holmes Basic (fall 1981), which is a rewrite of ODD. It was very disappointing experience. I was a single player with a wizard. I rolled 1 for Hit Points and had no constitution. I was killed three times by the same kobold in the first room of the cave. I complained to the DM that he should let me have maximum HPs since I was alone. He refused saying that were the rules... I almost never played D&D again because of that guy. That Christmas I received the Moldvay Basic box. I still play today.</p><p></p><p>Last year in January a was hit by a wave of nostalgia and reread AD&D1e, then D&D B/X. Then I bought BlueHolmes Journeyman edition, which is a respectful reedition of the original Holmes but adds the rules to play up to level 20. I was surprised to discover a game that <u>does not</u> include Race-as-Class. I always thought ODD included that concept. Honestly I would have preferred that when I started playing D&D. Race-as-class always felt weird. I had the project of trying Blueholmes. Our 5e group got back together after a short hiatus and I forgot about it.</p><p></p><p>Would I play BlueHolmes/ODD today? No. It was an interesting historical read but I can't go back to that style of gaming. The turn sequence, the accounting of ressources, encumbrance, attack matrix and many other rules are not palatable me. Never played ODD and probably never will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="atanakar, post: 7935830, member: 65762"] In the early 80s I knew a DM who owned the white books but he never offered to play. We were already playing AD&D at the time. I played a single game of Holmes Basic (fall 1981), which is a rewrite of ODD. It was very disappointing experience. I was a single player with a wizard. I rolled 1 for Hit Points and had no constitution. I was killed three times by the same kobold in the first room of the cave. I complained to the DM that he should let me have maximum HPs since I was alone. He refused saying that were the rules... I almost never played D&D again because of that guy. That Christmas I received the Moldvay Basic box. I still play today. Last year in January a was hit by a wave of nostalgia and reread AD&D1e, then D&D B/X. Then I bought BlueHolmes Journeyman edition, which is a respectful reedition of the original Holmes but adds the rules to play up to level 20. I was surprised to discover a game that [U]does not[/U] include Race-as-Class. I always thought ODD included that concept. Honestly I would have preferred that when I started playing D&D. Race-as-class always felt weird. I had the project of trying Blueholmes. Our 5e group got back together after a short hiatus and I forgot about it. Would I play BlueHolmes/ODD today? No. It was an interesting historical read but I can't go back to that style of gaming. The turn sequence, the accounting of ressources, encumbrance, attack matrix and many other rules are not palatable me. Never played ODD and probably never will. [/QUOTE]
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