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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 7385070" data-attributes="member: 158"><p>I can’t find anything quickly that does a good job, but the simplest thing might be to read through the histories of the products themselves from their purchase pages for their PDF versions from the DMs Guild store:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/28306/ODD-Dungeons--Dragons-Original-Edition-0e?src=also_purchased&it=1" target="_blank">http://www.dmsguild.com/product/28306/ODD-Dungeons--Dragons-Original-Edition-0e?src=also_purchased&it=1</a></p><p><a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/17174/ODD-Supplement-I-Greyhawk-0e?it=1" target="_blank">http://www.dmsguild.com/product/17174/ODD-Supplement-I-Greyhawk-0e?it=1</a></p><p><a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17172/ODD-Supplement-II-Blackmoor-0e?it=1" target="_blank">http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17172/ODD-Supplement-II-Blackmoor-0e?it=1</a></p><p><a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/17176/ODD-Supplement-III-Eldritch-Wizardry-0e?it=1" target="_blank">http://www.dmsguild.com/product/17176/ODD-Supplement-III-Eldritch-Wizardry-0e?it=1</a></p><p><a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/17177/ODD-Supplement-IV-Gods-Demigods--Heroes-0e?src=also_purchased&it=1" target="_blank">http://www.dmsguild.com/product/17177/ODD-Supplement-IV-Gods-Demigods--Heroes-0e?src=also_purchased&it=1</a></p><p></p><p>DMs guild does an excellent job sourcing references such as Shannon Appelcline’s Designers and Dragons book series to give detailed historical info and summaries for the historical significance of a product. A person could spend hours just reading those history pages for the OD&D and first ed stuff!</p><p></p><p>You also mentioned you were unfamiliar with some of the early rule book names and chronologies - this page from the Aceum may help:</p><p><a href="https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/rulebooks.html" target="_blank">https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/rulebooks.html</a></p><p></p><p>The Aceum site itsel is another great resource of all the old books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Henry, post: 7385070, member: 158"] I can’t find anything quickly that does a good job, but the simplest thing might be to read through the histories of the products themselves from their purchase pages for their PDF versions from the DMs Guild store: [url]http://www.dmsguild.com/product/28306/ODD-Dungeons--Dragons-Original-Edition-0e?src=also_purchased&it=1[/url] [url]http://www.dmsguild.com/product/17174/ODD-Supplement-I-Greyhawk-0e?it=1[/url] [url]http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17172/ODD-Supplement-II-Blackmoor-0e?it=1[/url] [url]http://www.dmsguild.com/product/17176/ODD-Supplement-III-Eldritch-Wizardry-0e?it=1[/url] [url]http://www.dmsguild.com/product/17177/ODD-Supplement-IV-Gods-Demigods--Heroes-0e?src=also_purchased&it=1[/url] DMs guild does an excellent job sourcing references such as Shannon Appelcline’s Designers and Dragons book series to give detailed historical info and summaries for the historical significance of a product. A person could spend hours just reading those history pages for the OD&D and first ed stuff! You also mentioned you were unfamiliar with some of the early rule book names and chronologies - this page from the Aceum may help: [url]https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/rulebooks.html[/url] The Aceum site itsel is another great resource of all the old books. [/QUOTE]
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