The Swords & Wizardry/Microlite74 campaign I’ve been running since early in the year (some 17 sessions) last Sunday. My players had looked through The Gray Book the previous weekend and told me then that they might want to convert the … Continue reading →
What many people have forgotten is the Gary Gygax was involved in the wargame hobby long before TSR and D&D. Gygax used to participate in wargame fanzines that were common in the era. They were one of the main ways … Continue reading →
Some of the comments to my post on The Gray Book yesterday that The Gray Book was too much like AD&D to be considered OD&D confused me. The only reason I can think is that the 1e retroclones have given … Continue reading →
I mentioned a nice compilation of the OD&D rules here a few days ago (see The Gray Book: OD&D Compiled). I printed out a copy and the players at my Sunday Microlite74 game looked it over while we played. The … Continue reading →
I’ve just discovered another collected compiled version of early D&D available for free on the web. Steven J. Ege’s The Gray Book is a collected, re-organized and slightly edited version of the OD&D rules and supplements (with some additions from … Continue reading →