Your favorite older edition products
- Thread starter Mouseferatu
- Start date
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
1. The Strategic Review issue which introduced the Ranger class
2. Null
3. The Wilderness Survival Guide
4. Null
2. Null
3. The Wilderness Survival Guide
4. Null
wingsandsword
Legend
1. Never played it.
2. Only had the Black Box with the Red Dragon on the cover from the early 90's and no suppliments.
3. Manual of the Planes
4. Either Aurora's Whole Realm's Catalog (the best equipment book ever for any version of D&D) or the Faiths & Avatars/Powers & Pantheons/Demihuman Deities series (best fluff ever made for the Realms, and I still use a little of the "crunch" in 3.x, like the allowed clergy alignments and classes for each deity, and the specialty priesthoods are good inspiration for multiclass combos if an equivalent PrC doesn't exist).
2. Only had the Black Box with the Red Dragon on the cover from the early 90's and no suppliments.
3. Manual of the Planes
4. Either Aurora's Whole Realm's Catalog (the best equipment book ever for any version of D&D) or the Faiths & Avatars/Powers & Pantheons/Demihuman Deities series (best fluff ever made for the Realms, and I still use a little of the "crunch" in 3.x, like the allowed clergy alignments and classes for each deity, and the specialty priesthoods are good inspiration for multiclass combos if an equivalent PrC doesn't exist).
Desdichado
Hero
1) Your favorite OD&D supplement (such as they were): None.
2) Your favorite Basic D&D supplement (and ID which Basic set it was for, if you know): Uhh, core books out, huh? Then none.
3) Your favorite 1E AD&D supplement: Dungeoneer's Survival Guide or whatever the exact title was. Also quite liked the 1e Manual of the Planes. I needed something that was a bit more fleshed out, like a setting, but not too constrictive, as the later settings became. Both of those books were right on the mark in terms of usability vs. open-endedness to me.
4) Your favorite 2E AD&D supplement: Planescape boxed set, probably.
For many of the same reasons. It was exotic, and had great flavor, and it wasn't too constricted. Lots of ideas, not too many new rules or things like that. The setting later on became much more defined, which hurt it, in some ways, and 3e generally tends to leave too much undefined in favor of "yet another new rule".
2) Your favorite Basic D&D supplement (and ID which Basic set it was for, if you know): Uhh, core books out, huh? Then none.
3) Your favorite 1E AD&D supplement: Dungeoneer's Survival Guide or whatever the exact title was. Also quite liked the 1e Manual of the Planes. I needed something that was a bit more fleshed out, like a setting, but not too constrictive, as the later settings became. Both of those books were right on the mark in terms of usability vs. open-endedness to me.
4) Your favorite 2E AD&D supplement: Planescape boxed set, probably.
For many of the same reasons. It was exotic, and had great flavor, and it wasn't too constricted. Lots of ideas, not too many new rules or things like that. The setting later on became much more defined, which hurt it, in some ways, and 3e generally tends to leave too much undefined in favor of "yet another new rule".
kengar
First Post
Mouseferatu said:
1. Blackmoor. Dunno why, it's just cool to me.
2. Module B2: Keep on the Borderlands (Moldvay). Best. Module. EVAR!
3. Deities & Demigods (w/Cthulhu et al). You gotta remember, at the time I was first playing 1e, I was a jr. high school kid into Greek mythology, etc. (aka "nerd")
4. Never played 2e
Last edited:
1) saw the books and made my first character under these rules, but never got to actually play and was too young to remember them.
2) My favorites were the module Keep on the Borderlands and the Gazeteers.
3) For 1e, it would probably have to be both the module Village of Homlett and the Unearthed Arcana (the barbarian and cavalier were overpowered and had some abilities that did not make sense, but there were some hints at differentiating between barbarians of different cultures and environments).
4) My 2e favorites include: Darksun (awesome setting showing that DND did not have to be medieval based fantasy), AL Quadim/Arabian Adventures , Combat and Tactics (threat ratings for weapons and crit locations), Spells and Magic (much better Magic supplement then Tome and Blood), and The Complete Thief's Handbook (The best of any of the 2e splat TSR splatbooks and better than the WOTC splat books)
2) My favorites were the module Keep on the Borderlands and the Gazeteers.
3) For 1e, it would probably have to be both the module Village of Homlett and the Unearthed Arcana (the barbarian and cavalier were overpowered and had some abilities that did not make sense, but there were some hints at differentiating between barbarians of different cultures and environments).
4) My 2e favorites include: Darksun (awesome setting showing that DND did not have to be medieval based fantasy), AL Quadim/Arabian Adventures , Combat and Tactics (threat ratings for weapons and crit locations), Spells and Magic (much better Magic supplement then Tome and Blood), and The Complete Thief's Handbook (The best of any of the 2e splat TSR splatbooks and better than the WOTC splat books)
Davelozzi
Explorer
1. ---
2. X1 Isle of Dread, if that counts even though it was packaged with the Expert Set. I mainly used the Elmore cover boxed sets (red basic, blue expert, green companion...), though I over the years I also aquired some other versions.
3. Probably I3 Pharoah, though G1-3 Against the Giants is up there too.
4. World Builder's Guide
2. X1 Isle of Dread, if that counts even though it was packaged with the Expert Set. I mainly used the Elmore cover boxed sets (red basic, blue expert, green companion...), though I over the years I also aquired some other versions.
3. Probably I3 Pharoah, though G1-3 Against the Giants is up there too.
4. World Builder's Guide
MrFilthyIke
First Post
Mouseferatu said:
1. Don't own OD&D stuff
2. The Shadow Elves Gazetteer
3. Forgotten Realms Boxed set
2. Sigil: City of Secrets
Old Fezziwig
this is a low-flying panic attack
1. No OD&D stuff.
2. Never had any supplements to Basic, although I had all the boxes.
3. Temple of Elemental Evil -- we played the hell out of that one. Close tie for second: FR grey box and the Greyhawk box.
4. The Time of the Dragon box/Taladas for Dragonlance. Had some fun with that stuff, too.
2. Never had any supplements to Basic, although I had all the boxes.
3. Temple of Elemental Evil -- we played the hell out of that one. Close tie for second: FR grey box and the Greyhawk box.
4. The Time of the Dragon box/Taladas for Dragonlance. Had some fun with that stuff, too.
Similar Threads
