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Top Secret reminds me when you had to be smart along with original D&D when you had to deal with integers, and percentile division. They have dummed the games down so much in the last 40 years that I had forgotten about this aspect of play. Most of us didn't have calculators back then [they were very expensive for even a basic one, I remember the casio calc watch.], you did this stuff in your head or if you were not that smart, on a piece of paper. We used to use Car Wars because it was more detailed for vehicle combat, I guess our first homebrew, lol. When you were talking about rolling for yes or no and location it occurred to me that this was among the first original game emulators, pretty cool how ahead of the curve these games actually were then.

Any updates on the next update ?? Asking for a gnome illusionist.. hoping the holidays are stress free

AD&D didn't allow characters to improve their ability scores with getting tomes.

Not sure how you ended up in my feed but I'm so excited to binge your channel!

Half elves, is somewhat solved by 5th where they finally said look, you can be an elf heritage or human but not both. Which was the exact thing Tolkien said, you had to choose, immortal or human. Anyway, I like race as class with Demi human, clerics are dumb and obtrusive they lord over the whole game because a pantheon has to be designed and implemented into the game world, and is always ridiculous, should’ve just been healers.

I would have to say that my most memorable and enjoyable dungeon from "way back then" would have to be "Caverns of Thracia" from Judge's Guild. This cavern felt alive to me, and the different ways that levels were connected or could be accessed was new compared to just another set of stairs or another walkway up and down. It would the first time that a dungeon crawl actually gave me a sense of being 3 dimensional rather than just another 2d paper map dungeon. This was the first dungeon, after The Village of Hommlet, that felt alive to me. I enjoyed this both as a player, intrigued by the enormity of the place, and then as a DM fascinated by the intricacy with which this enormous place had been put together. It also launched me into a deep dive of other Judge's Guild products and allowed me to find products my players weren't familiar with since most of them simply focused on TSR as their main source of product.

I almost don't play D&D anymore, only when I want to prep a great dungeon and use minis... And even then I prefer to use Castles & Crusades. I usually play pbta games now. But as they aren't mechanic complex and they haven't such a historical baggage. There is no much to talk about them. So earring and taking about D&D is always more interesting to me. I'm glad I found your channel. Great content.

I like the long vids, for what it's worth

At about 10 years old I got the Holmes, Moldvey box sets, the core a d&d books, and the dungeon board game. My mom played the dungeon game with me. About 1990 I started playing d&d again and mom gave me newspaper articles cutout about the panic. Years later she said that she had nothing to worry about me.

Congratulations on your 100th video. I would like to enter the Gamma World Boot Hill Giveaway.

Aa someone who mostly used 81 basic and then becmi and then a little bit of 3e, how do you deal with the typical expectation of higher incidence of PC mortality when you are DMing for young and sensitive players? I encountered issues with how a young lady could not handle npc deaths, let alone PC deaths.

It's really heart warming to hear about your experiences with prof DM. As I think I've said before his series on the caves of carnage and other easily early era videos were great inspiration for me as well as I was getting (back) into old school D&D. Thank you among other things for reminding me about that inspiration! So happy to hear of you ongoing communication with the professor!

Glorantha? Or was that a bit later?

I owned D&D, Empire of the Petal at Throne, Gamma World, Twilight 2000 and the Morrow Pproject. I guess I had a pretty good childhood! 😮

Also as tactical considerations for mass combat influences. The hungry enemy is forced to cross an icy river before they can engage their forces. OK let's impose a disadvantage factor.

I always loved these 2 books. But as a primarily BECMI DM. I never used these books as actual rules.I felt that they gave an excellent overview of "realistic" considerations for a DM to think about so that you had a good basis of understanding whenever you needed to make situational rulings. Sometimes those rulings included nerfing NPC or monsters based on tactical disadvantages that smart characters applied against them. Basic ideas such as using water chilling effects against enemies. So I would just apply abstract adjustments based on my gut, and relevant survival considerations.

I should have realized back in the mid 80's that all this stuff would be collectors items one day. Wish I still had all my shit. Soooo much. Especially the lead figures

My favorite D&D book ever. Its LEGENDARY. I don't understand anyone who says this is culturally insensitive. Ridiculous. It's an homage

In the beginning, these books were meant to be more guidelines than rules. There were many gaps and players often had to make things up that just weren't covered. Being strict on rules was typically frowned upon.

Check out the video game "Caves of QUD". It's basically ROGUE: Gamma World

Oh you are underselling Leibowicz. It's about a Monastery in 3 eras after Nuclear War. But the Revolution after the war was the Simplification: it's all the stupid scientists that created the nukes so society embraces being simpletons/uneducated. The religious Order was founded to preserve any book and knowledge while everyone was literally book burning after the nukes.

Leibowitz?! "I ate the lizard."

In my mind the thief is a less combat class than rogue. Thief got better lock picking and climbing and traps disarming, rogue got more combat agility and endurance.

Core of DnD: adventurer group, medieval fantasy world, monsters, magic items, spells. Hit points armor class, d20 to hit, saving throws, rolled 3-18 attributes. Not dnd: d100 to hit, limb takes damage, spell point pool, grimdark.

I would disagree with you on all of these picks

I'm from rural Middle Tennessee and I definitely saw Chick tracts "in the wild" growing up, but I haven't actually seen one in over 20 years now. The local Evangelical groups seem to have moved on to different tactics. The most common one around here was "Big Daddy", which was an anti-evolution tract. Southern Evangelicals used to be weirdly stuck on the topic of evolution.

Wargs were renamed "Worgs". Dire Wolves are also still a thing but they're slightly different. Wargs have a language and are associated with Goblins and Hobgoblins.

Super interesting, as always!

Another great video. Thanks for sharing all this and the fun facts.

I'm a neutral thief/rogue character.😊

Let the player over time make there alignment I know the class and character constraints

I would argue that Caverns of Thracia is one of the best D&D adventures made. That is the one that I remember best from my younger days playing. My book is covered in pencil marks from playing for years.

Good old Prof DM.

A lot of people are generally quick to point out that Holmes Basic seems to have the most in common with OD&D when you place it next to everything that came before and after. Zenopus Archives is right to point out that Dr. Holmes' original manuscript points players and DMs in the direction of the original D&D box set for further level advancement, which was changed by TSR to AD&D instead.

Snubbed again. You bastards ;)

I gotta add a couple of modules that don't ever seem to get the love they deserve...X2: Castle Amber and I3-5: Desert of Desolation (compilation). As a DM with Castle Amber (Moldvay again 😄), the sheer madness of it was a blast, and I've run it several times. As a player in the Desert of Desolation series, the tricks and traps genuinely challenged my problem solving at the time.

My most memorable Modules were X2 Castle Amber, I6 Ravenloft, I10 Ravenloft 2, The super Module Temple of Elemental Evil (which had a bunch of modules that I can't remember without dragging them out

Great collaboration gentlemen!

Here a Gamma World animatic I created to illustrate a key moment in my campaign ua-cam.com/video/evTiYflRm-k/v-deo.htmlsi=KuRFIlIkZiBgE4oV

Gamma World was my first and all time favorite RPG. Started playing & Gm-ing in 1980. Recently, over the past couple of years I've been re-running a campaign for my family and some friends that I originally wrote in 1980 for my High School friends. It's been a blast revisiting my 14 year-old self's creative concepts.

Have you played or review Aftermath! from Fantasy Ground Unlimited? It came out in 1981.

Best D&D UA-cam channel by far!

Unearthed Arcana changed D&D forever. * subclasses * weapon specialization * double (greater) weapon specialization * cantrips * grappling (pummeling) * non-human pantheons That's just to name a few things that have become a permanent part of Dungeons and Dragons.

This is THE book that I would assign if I somehow found myself teaching a "Game Mastering 101" class. So approachable and such a great pedantic (in the best sense) structure. Any self-motivated "game master" (regardless of system) absolutely NEEDS this book on their shelf.

I was This Many years old (i.e., decades into the hobby) when I learned "Oerth" (which by all rules of phonics should be pronounced "OH-urth" or maybe "OHr-th" ) was supposed to be "OI-th"; like Bugs Bunny saying "Earth". Seems like "Oyth" or "Oyeth" would have been a better transliteration. 🤷‍♂️