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 →
Thanks to a post on theRPGsite, I’ve just discovered the Searchers of the Unknown RPG. A one page set of rules for playing old-style (aka early TSR) D&D modules. Here’s the concept from the rules pdf: A typical old-school D&D … Continue reading →
I mentioned that I was having a playtest of a rough draft of a Swords & Wizardry module I’m writing in my Saturday post. Even though I only had two players, the session was enlightening. The bad news is that … Continue reading →
Chgowiz has reported on the S&W Forum that Swords and Wizardry has won an ENnie: “Silver Award for Best Free Product! (2nd Place).” Congratulations to Matt Finch (Mythmere) and everyone else who has helped make S&W a success. Speaking of … Continue reading →
I’ve been asked if I could create a version of M74 that used 2d6 instead of 1d20 so that the game could be played with six-sided dice only. This would be relatively easy to do. For example, the primary die … Continue reading →
I been asked many times why I don’t like later editions of D&D and still play older editions. I think this can best be answered by listing some of the major things I look for in a set of fantasy … Continue reading →
James Mishler recently devoted a long blog post (The Doom of RPGs: The Rambling) to basically berating gamers because they are not willing to pay the (higher) prices he thinks RPG materials should sell for. He seems to believe the … Continue reading →
For those who don’t know this has been an annoying week. I received a relatively condescending email this weekend from a game publisher who shall remain nameless (but one who has nothing to do with the Old School Revival) telling … Continue reading →