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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 260596" data-attributes="member: 1054">Here's how you can tell a true oldsk00l gamer. Say the word "Arduin". If they get a blank, glassy-eyed stare, they're newbies. If they suddenly light up and start talking about 'grey horrors' and 'my 37th level halfling slaver' and 'I remember that critical I rolled' and 'Kill kittens...kill kittens! They're everywhere! Everywhere!', then, they're oldsk00l.The Arduin Trilogy was a series of three books, similair in form to the ORIGINAL D&D & supplements, published by the late David Hargrave during the golden age of RPGing. Tiny type, crude illustrations, and packed with an incredible density of ideas. No refinement, no detail, no depth, just idea after idea after idea. Spells, monsters, magic items, classes, races, names of inns, names of dungeons, names of coins, new combat rules, new hit point rules, random editorial comments, references to unpublished bits and pieces, a total mish-mash of damned near everything under the sun . Totally unprofessional by today's standard. They were written as supplements to original D&D and couldn't be used otherwise, but, for legal reasons, Hargrave kept insisting they were a 'complete game'.The original three were:The Arduin GrimoireWelcome to Skull TowerThe Runes of DoomYou can often find them on eBay. Ignore or avoid "The Compleat Arduin" a posthumous recompilation with all the soul surgically removed. Arduin's IV trough VIII were good, but less dense, drifting further from D&D variant and more to Dave's slowly-evolving house rules. Still a good idea source,  very, very, good, just not quite as wild and wooly as the original three.</blockquote>

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