Meet the Original Dungeons & Dragons diehards still playing by '70s rules
Refusing to roll with the times. Most tabletop fans have thrown a rolled a d20 or two in their time - especially now, thanks to the unprecedented popularity of Dungeons & Dragons 5E - but we all have our own opinions about what edition of the RPG rules them all.
Meet the Original Dungeons & Dragons diehards still playing by '70s rules
I'm not familiar with Dicebreaker or the author Steven T. Wright, but the article is a decent primer/intro to OD&D for a modern D&D audience. Smartly, the author talked to Matt and Delta (of Delta's D&D Hotspot) and much of the article reads as a conversation with them.
Nice to see general interest attention on OD&D, though sadly the article mentions Dragonsfoot but not the OD&D Discussion forum. I left a comment thanking the author and providing a link there.
He's putting everything prior to 3rd edition under the umbrella term OD&D. Which I guess sort of makes sense, since it was all still TSR and the differences were fairly minimal when compared to what came after. I made an account just to post a reply, it's waiting for approval from the "moderation team."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't do that.
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Late to the party but I do this. I only use the original three little booklets plus the thief from the Greyhawk supplement. Its very playable. Eventually I slightly modified the included weapon damage, like the dagger is 1D6 -2, two handed sword is 1D6 +6, etc, but not much else has changed. A lot of fun to play!
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