Last article I covered the stuff in the Player’s Handbook of 1st Edition AD&D.  That was just to get the ball rolling.  This past Friday, less than an hour ago in fact, my group and I just finished up the first session of the adventure.  It’s going to take several sessions, since we’re running online and that slows things down a lot, but I’ll be writing about it for as long as we continue.  The first installment is a nice showcase of just how rough they had it back then.

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And now for something completely different.

In an effort to show some friends how gaming’s come along in the decades since the formative years, I’m doing some retro games. First among these is my first game, AD&D 1st Edition. Not Basic D&D, though I played some of that… AD&D. This is what I cut my teeth on, so there’s a strong nostalgia factor, but now that I’m older I can understand the rules a little more easily. For Part 1 of this series, I’ll be talking about how 1st Edition is different from ‘modern’ D&D(referring to both version 3.X and 4th) and how my own game will be set up. Future installments will cover summaries of the game sessions, both to relate interesting game stories and commentary on how the game system affected play. Read the rest of this entry »