D&D 1E My AD&D 1E hardback collection - what do you see?

[GreyLord]

Lake Geneva public library, see if you can start a rumor the way the Necronomicon card catalog entry at Yale did.

Though it used to be fictional, it now exists. I have a copy on my shelf.

Weird tales of creatures and things from places unknown reside between it's covers and stories of madness and insanity grace it's pages.

I highly suggest it.

You have the fake version from 1977 which you could get for 8.99...or THE Necronomicon....looks to run around $25.

Of course whether you dare read it or not...that's your OWN decision...

 

[Alzrius]

You have the fake version from 1977 which you could get for 8.99...or THE Necronomicon....looks to run around $25.

Meh, as a grognard I don't like all this new-school "Necronomicon" nonsense. I'll keep using my vintage Kitab al-Azif, thank you very much.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Meh, as a grognard I don't like all this new-school "Necronomicon" nonsense. I'll keep using my vintage Kitab al-Azif, thank you very much.

Hasn't been the same since Lorraine Williams and the Blumes forced out Abdul Al'Hazred...

 

[Cadence]

That looks spectacular


And now I'm picturing a hardcover that smoothly splices together the Moldvay B and Cook X.

 

[Fifth Element]

And now I'm picturing a hardcover that smoothly splices together the Moldvay B and Cook X.

Great minds...

 

[rogueattorney]

Anyone who wants a legal “Unearthed Arcana II” without going through the hassle of making it yourself should check out this:

The Heroic Legendarium: A First Edition Adventure Gaming Companion - Storm Fetish Productions | DriveThruRPG.com

It’s a very well-done 1e-compatible compilation inspired by post-Unearhed Arcana works by Gygax and others.

There’s no art and no orange-spine, but I’m sure you creative types could hack apart the pdf, add art, and print one off on Lulu the same way the OP did.

 

[JumpMaster13]

That's awesome. Any possibility of purchasing your pdf files?

 

[Sacrosanct]

Great minds...

Ah! Thread necromancy! I didn't mention it at the time because I was still working on it, but I was doing something similar (that I finished in Nov 2022). I compiled all the OD&D and 1e monsters from Strategic Review and Dragon into one book. Like you mentioned, it was all manual retyping. Couldn't just cut and paste from digital PDFs.

I did get the OK from Tim Kask, Ed Greenwood, and Roger E Moore beforehand, but it was couched with caution because no one really knows who owns the IP rights to those old books. Some of the rights went back to the creators and artists, and some stayed with TSR. But TSR never kept good records.

For this book, there are only a few copies: I have one, Ed Greenwood has one, Tim Kask has one, and Luke Gygax has one (Roger has a digital version).

That's awesome. Any possibility of purchasing your pdf files?

I would caution against any sort of distribution as we don't have the rights. RE: my own book, Tim Kask made it easy for me. People kept asking for a copy, so Tim mentioned in one of his videos that as the rights holder of the Bulette, he will not give me permission to distribute the book, so people should stop asking