"On the other hand, we are not loathe to answer your questions, but why have us do any more of your imagining for you?" -- Gary Gygax, from the afterward in the original Dungeons & Dragons box set (1973 ( Read more... )

A low-level D&D monster I've been tinkering with... It can feel like low-level monsters are less interesting than high level monsters, so I tried to make these more than chunks of hit points ( Read more... )

There was talk of putting kender in 5th edition D&D and on a certain board there was a tremendous outcry. Kender are really, really hated by a certain portion of the fanbase. As for myself, I consider anyone who doesn't like kender to not be suitable for my campaign ( Read more... )

They put up the Expert D&D rulebook on that pdf page, also for five dollars. That means, that for ten dollars, plus about five dollars (maybe?) for dice, you can get enough stuff to play one of the best versions of D&D forever. Beats paying 40 dollars for a new rulebook; especially when you need two more books that cost a similar amount! If you've ( Read more... )

Yet more D&D stuff: the pdfs of old books that were taken down so long ago are back again, at http://www.dndclassics.com/index.php!Read more... )

Someone in a forum posted this link: http://mystara.thorf.co.uk/jrc.phpRead more... )

I was doing a write-up on the history of my D&D campaigns and players, and I've discovered that I've had twenty-two players since 1985. Sheesh! Albeit five of them only played one time. It's weird going through all this old stuff and dredging up such old memories. I'm basically creating a Hall of Heroes, for memorable Player Characters from my ( Read more... )

When it became clear that there was money to be made from pre-written adventures, TSR started printing modules -- either those written for tournament use or written by Gary Gygax based on adventures in his own Greyhawk campaign ( Read more... )

(As reprinted in the Holmes edition of D&D (i.e. the second version of D&D), brackets and all ( Read more... )

During the period where Gary Gygax was being squeezed out of TSR, a great deal of material for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was lost, and has never come to light, much of it being lost forever. This is an exploration of lost AD&D books ( Read more... )