Who played Basic D&D all the way up through all of the sets?

[rogueattorney]

I have often wondered what a Companion rules set that followed the David Cook expert set would have looked like.

RobertFisher is putting together his take on Moldvay/Cook style Companion rules over on Dragonsfoot.

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5021

R.A.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

cool.

I started playing D&D before we even had dice to roll. For random number generation, Grunk, our DM at the time (we called him "CaveMaster") would hold his hands behind his back and we'd guess how many fingers he was holding - it was a very complicated system, so please don't ask me to elaborate. The character classes consisted of Sharp Stick Wielder, Rock Thrower, Fire Maker, Female, and Anyone Else Who Barely Survived Being Eaten By Hungry Creatures And Is Good For Nothing Except Keeping Caves Clean. (My Rock Thrower lived to 3rd level, which was considerd Legendary status back then.)

Boxed sets, bah! - You kids with your fancy-fangled "books" make me sick!

I want to use this as a .sig.

At any rate, on topic:

I just played the first two sets (Basic and Expert, both first printing). At that point I discovered 1st ed. AD&D so I tried to run a game using the Player's Handbook and my Basic and Expert books with my brother and a few other people (kind of hard when my stepmother decided that D&D was evil). I now own every version of the D&D core rules (from the white box to 3.5) except for the rewritten brown book made after the cyclopedia (which I gave away, didn't really like it, still have the box, use it to hold my oD&D books since I don't have any of those boxes). I've tried my hand at writing a 3e version of the D&D basic set.

 

[Belegbeth]

I picked up the Cyclopedia rules out of nostaligia a little while ago. The problem I would have with them now is there is no skill system. No way for any one to, say, craft an item. Sure, you can improvise or add house rules - but you can do that with any system.

But there IS a skill system in the Rules Cyclopedia! Check out chapter 5. It looks suspiciously similar to a certain other skill system ...

 

[Revenge of the Bjorn]

Also noticed the blurb in the Immortals set that those who made it to Heirarch twice and then dispersed their essence into mortality again immediately were "attacked" by blackballs - and passed through them to become Old Ones. That only two immortals had ever done it in the history of immortaldom.

So of course I did it and my character became an Old One, a "god to the gods" or somesuch.

This intrigues me. Was that handled Rule-ificationally or did the character just turn into a walking plot device?

 

[johnsemlak]

RobertFisher is putting together his take on Moldvay/Cook style Companion rules over on Dragonsfoot.

http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5021

R.A.

Ah, like massive cool!!!

Thanks for the link. Gotta check that out.