Od&d

howandwhy99 · February 28, 2006, 05:33:40 PM

Show me the love! Who's playing?

Knightcrawler · February 28, 2006, 05:35:41 PM

I have very fond memories but haven't touched it since 2nd edition AD&D.

The Rat Who Would Be King · February 28, 2006, 05:35:49 PM

You rang?!

howandwhy99 · February 28, 2006, 05:57:13 PM

Quote from: The Rat Who Would Be KingYou rang?!

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We play the wood box rules with homegrown expansions. Chainmail and Wilderness Survival mandatory.

The Rat Who Would Be King · February 28, 2006, 06:02:12 PM

I've been following diaglo's campaign notes at DF for quite some time, and have enjoyed the goings on immensely.

Which reminds me, I have an D&D link floating around there somewhere, too. I'll link it to here, so I don't have to retype all that.

EDIT: Here it is.

No story notes or anything thusfar, but maybe I'll do that here or something. We're winding up our first dungeon (begun in Dec 2004), and I've been working like mad on a new delve, all done very old school with large multi-levels and the rest.

Mr. Christopher · February 28, 2006, 07:47:05 PM

Quote from: howandwhy99Show me the love! Who's playing?

I'll show you the love.

Huh? Well fuck, I thought you guys were talking about Rules Cyclopedia Basic / Expert / etc. version of D&D in here.

Now I want to show somebody the hate.

JoeBlank · February 28, 2006, 10:07:05 PM

I'm playing, but I think you know that.

(I too am in diaglo's game.)

He has not convinced me that OD&D is the one true game, but he has convinced me that the right game with the right DM/referee can be great.

Cyberzombie · February 28, 2006, 11:41:51 PM

OD&D = Rules Cyclopedia, Known World, Basic/Expert/Companion/Master rules.

Although I do own a 3rd printing of the white box old skool rules.

BOZ · March 01, 2006, 12:42:58 AM

Quote from: SatyrI'll show you the love.

Huh? Well fuck, I thought you guys were talking about Rules Cyclopedia Basic / Expert / etc. version of D&D in here.

Now I want to show somebody the hate.

diaglo? is that you?

Nicephorus · March 01, 2006, 08:25:22 AM

I liked the basic/expert rules. If anything the Rules Cyclopedia added too much clutter. But I haven't played for a while. I wouldn't mind though - character creation and play are fast and easy.

I like the design philosophy. Offer a few basic choices that are actually different. D20 offers tons of choices with fine gradations - I like that too but it can be tedious at times. For example, compare armor and weapons in the red book vs. the 3E PHB. In basic, there are three armor types, essentially light, medium, and heavy.

The Rat Who Would Be King · March 01, 2006, 04:00:28 PM

Quote from: SatyrI'll show you the love.

Huh? Well fuck, I thought you guys were talking about Rules Cyclopedia Basic / Expert / etc. version of D&D in here.

Now I want to show somebody the hate.

Basic/Expert is a great system. If my OD&D experiment wasn't going so smoothly, I'd be using it in preference to any other D&D.

But I'm polyamorous that way.

Steve Miller · March 11, 2006, 03:26:52 AM

Quote from: howandwhy99Show me the love! Who's playing?

I haven't played it since ca. 1997... but I am toying with breaking out the ole "Rules Cyclopedia" when the current 'Martian Adventures' of my Cyberpunk 2020 campaign come to an end.

I'll see if I can sell the players on a "retro-game" like that!

CleanCutRogue · March 21, 2006, 11:26:46 PM

I love the simplicity of the system. As much as I love D&D3.5 as a player, as a DM I have to say that generating a level 12 (or whatever) character is a lot simpler in OD&D. Plus - in D&D3.5 I fear I'm breaking the careful balance of the system if I get all house-rulesy (honestly, I'd rather spend three hours online searching for a playtested Feat that serves my purpose than add a house rule!). In OD&D it wasn't that carefully balanced to begin with so tweaking and personalizing for a campaign setting or play preference was commonplace.

Anyone remember this file? Class Generation

RPGPundit · March 22, 2006, 11:23:27 AM

I've been running a Rules Cyclopedia D&D campaign "by the book" for the last year and a half now. The characters are at very high levels. For a while, I was writing an online playlog of their adventures on the Mystara section of the Wizard boards, that also ended up somewhere on the Vaults of Pandius Mystara site.

Thus far, none of them have started their immortality quest, but a few of them are on the verge.

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RPGPundit · March 22, 2006, 11:25:30 AM

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