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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 4898349" data-attributes="member: 1613">Well, technically Swords & Spells isn't really Supplement V:  there wasn't a supplement V ever published.  Each of the first four supplements were explicity numbered, but S&S wasn't.  So, FWIW, I think it is in fact just what diaglo said:  a Chainmail revision, rather than an OD&D supplement.  Pedantic?  Perhaps <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I think everything we know about the game today would be radically different.  Kalibruhn is very close to OD&D (and GH and BM) in many ways, but it also has some strong departures too.  Seconded:  Rob's influence on the development of D&D was very significant, and his sheer creativity is likely unsurpassed among the founders' generation (save, perhaps, by Barker).  And they are a joy to play too! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I'll have to dig into my auction archives, but I'm pretty sure that this is one of the lots that was auctioned off by Rob c. 2006 or so via Paul Stormberg.  It originally sold for substantially less than $3500 though, since Bottle City only hit $3650, and I don't recall anything else being close to that figure.Rob definitely has plans to publish Kalibruhn, Ari, along with many other materials from the Lake Geneva Campaigns.</blockquote>

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