A friend in the UK reminded me 50 Years ago a strange obscure game called Dungeons & Dragons was born and the 1st edition of it was published (obviously they didn’t know it was the first edition at the time). Some of you might have heard of it…
Category: AD&D 1e
RIP Jennell Jaquays
Very sad to hear the passing of Jennell Jaquays – after a period of severe illness. She was a great contributor to the early D&D era and (as Paul Jaquays) did many new and original things at the early time in D&D’s history. I have hugely fond memories of playing through Caverns of Thracia while […]
Original Adventures Reincarnated #7: Dark Tower
Goodman Games have done it again and launched a new Kickstarter for the latest in their “Original Adventures Reincarnated” range of books – this time the classic Jennell Jaquays Judges Guild published ‘Dark Tower‘ module. This module along with Jaquays’ ‘Caverns of Thracia‘ module are arguably the 2 best non-TSR D&D/AD&D modules produced in the […]
Rebuilding My OSR D&D Library
You know those moments when you realise you made a stupid mistake sometime ago, and there’s no easy way to undo it, well I had one of those! It was a few weeks ago, which has led to rebuilding my OSR D&D library from scratch as of December 2021. About 10 years ago I sold […]
Original Adventures Reincarnated
Goodman Games have been republishing classic TSR era D&D Adventure modules in a ‘deluxe’ hard cover format marketed as “Original Adventures Reincarnated“. These feature high quality scanned reprints of the original module releases (in some cases including 2 different original versions) that were originally for D&D Basic or AD&D 1e (1st Edition), and a modernised […]
Judges Guild Deluxe Volumes I & II
A big lot of kudos to Goodman Games for their work with historic Judges Guild material – and most especially one of my all time favourite modules The Caverns Of Thracia! Goodman Games have run 2 Kickstarter Campaigns recently to produce deluxe oversize hard cover volumes containing some of the most significant and historic Judges […]
The Two B3 Modules
Dedicated D&D players will know this, but some others may not; in fact I never knew about this in my time actively playing AD&D (the decade that was the 1980’s); that there were the two B3 modules. And although I came across references to it eventually; I have only really fully read up on it […]
Old School Dungeons and Dragons
I have got to admit, I’ve been away from Old School Dungeons & Dragons (and any roleplaying games for that matter) for some time. And by that I am referring to classic table-top (or ‘pen & paper’ if you prefer) gaming – not computer game versions. Being also a wargamer and familiar with using figures […]