I've been playing AD&D, both first and second edition, since around 1982!( I still believe first edition is the best!) I know I'm new here and dont have a really good idea of how the clans work on this board, but I'd love to either start, or belong to a clan of "old school" warriors, rangers, thieves and mages!

Anyone with me?....or is there anyone willing to direct me?

ROFL! I just posted about being a 1st edition player in Cerise's thread! Yes, I've played 1st ed AD&D all the way back in 1981 and 1982, back with the classic books (DM's manual with the huge red demon on it, and the Player's Handbook with the demon statue with the huge burning brazier). We used to make up our own worlds...no Faerun, no Forgotten Realms, etc.

One of the best 1st ed. campaigns I ever ran was set in a world very similar to 1500 B.C.'s Israel/Egypt, with Hebraic runes/magical system, huge burial tombs, priestly caste/structure, the whole 9 yards. It was right after Raiders of the Lost Ark had made such a huge splash and all the players just loved it. Talk about fun back then!

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Pleasure to meet you my friend!...One of my very favorite adventures was from the "Grayhawke" role-playing setting, many years ago called "Scourge of the Slave Lords" Talk about a great time? We played that module for probably three moths or more!

God we must be getting old!http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif...So what about it? How about a few of us old timers getting together and showing these kids how a D&D game is SUPPOSED to be played?.LOL


By the way, I still have those first edition books.....the DM's manual,Players Handbook, and Unearthed Arcana! I hear that they are worth something now!.........now I really feel old!http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif Yes All FIRST EDITION, including the FIRST TWO MONSTER MANUAL'S! Maybe I should hit "e-bay"......NOT!!!!!!!


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Hey Sazerac,.....Do you remember quite a while back, a group of modules and bookscalled "Ravenhawke"? or something?...I till have them!...What a great online game thet could be!.what do you think?

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Anyway anyone who has served his/her time in the real-time game play of old, please come forward! Many adventures await you and your pc's of old! Together we can begin a clan that will truly rule the current opposition and begin a force that will make history on this forum! " All hail the old farts of the first edition!" Lets start our own clan! WHAT SAY YOU?

Dear Bullvye,

Thanks for replying! I'd like to join in a game such as you are proposing. As it is right now, it's pretty late here and I have to work in the morning, but I'd like to discuss more on this later on.

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Is 1st Edition more like AD&D or more like 3rd Edition?
and what are the differences?

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Ad&d first edition and third edition don't have much in common, i'd have to say.

First edition is by far my favorite d&d setup...one of many things i prefer are the mage and cleric spells...a lot of them got scrapped 2nd edition, and 3rd edition has scrapped some 2nd editions stuff, so you can see how far removed 1st is from 3rd.

the sourcebooks look better...the rule system is cooler....the spells are totally badass. First edition all the way
I'm a big Dragonlance fan, and I have the first edition sourcebook for that. it's even better than the tales of the lance box set, though less extensive, but better nonetheless

I even remember the old Deities and Demigods which had the Ctulhu (sp?) mythos in it before it got axed in the reprint. Let me know if you guys need another old-school 1st edition player...I'm in.

Anyone here who still plays 2nd ed?

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I still have my copy of that version of Dieties and Demigods ...

I also have:
-- The first 50 or so adventure modules released
-- All the 1st edition hardcovers
-- Most of the original Grenadier 25mm miniatures, all hand painted
-- The first 4 "Dragon" magazines

I agree that 1st edition was the best of them all. For 10 years, D&D nigh on ruled my life.

I co-founded a games club that grew to become the largest independent club in the state ( The Wizards' Council ruled !! ), wrote and published my own adventure, and DM'd a game that lasted for over 7 years.

Sadly, I haven't played D&D now for about 10 years. I gave up when the 2nd edition rules started getting too silly, complex, and "politically correct". I no longer see any of the people I used to game with. All my D&D stuff still is displayed with pride in its bookcase, however !!

From what I have seen of 3rd edition, it doesn't seem to have the atmosphere that D&D used to. When we played way back then, you had the feeling that you were breaking new ground, doing something really special. Now D&D seems to be more influenced by Quake, Half-Life, and and other shoot-em-ups, just another grab for "powerups" and unlikey high level skills and spells. I sometimes feel something is not quite right when my BG2 fighter hits and causes over 40 damage with one strike - that sort of damage from 1 hit was unheard of in a proper 1st edition game !!

Maybe I'm just feeling bittersweet nostalgia. I've even tried to get my wife to play D&D, but she just doesn't seem to get the point of it all. Its nice to see people who can rejoice in being proper(?) D&D players.

I like the idea idea of a guild for us types. I do think the guild needs a name that commands awe and respect - not "old farts". We deserve better than that !!

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I have played all the editions of D&D. I game regularly with a fellow who wrote freelance for TSR before they became WotC and Hasbro bought them out. I actually prefer 3E. We were a group of the playtesters and although at first had our reservations I can tell you now I enjoyit much more that either 1st or 2nd Edition. You haven't fought a dragon till you fight one in 3E. Talk about a bad ass.

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No Basic or Runequest players out there?? http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/frown.gif

I Have played all the different versions of D&D but I´m one of thoose that like the 3:rd ed best..

THough I actually played mostly basic based games like runequest and such games.. Your HP didn´t go up just because you beat some monsters. You could hit, but then you had to penetrate the armour as well. That was fighting I can tell you!! Fints and blocking, duelling. Man, you could get so many real cool fights..

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*whispers* Saz - I STILL have that book (and my original dice) http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

I've played for...(OMG, I have to do the math now)...21 years! *gasp* Darn! That's a long time! Never done the math before. Sheesh! LOL, well I will continue to play this til I perish. But, I, too would be interested in such a gathering. I still have (and use sometimes) my original male Warrior character, plus a female Elven character (can't remember what class at the moment) and a few others.

Greetings, noble lupine !!

Played Basic sometimes, but never could get a feel for Runequest - took all your time just to do one decent battle.

While we are looking at classic RPG's, did anyone play any of these ??

Dragonquest
Star Frontiers
Gamma World
Lankhmar
Metamorphosis Alpha
Rolemaster
Swords and Sorcery ( Original SPI )
Call of Cthulhu
Traveller
Tunnels and Trolls
Bunnies and Burrows
Boot Hill

( those were the days ... http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif )

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Anyone here ever play the Amber: Diceless Roleplaying Game? That game requires actual thought about your combat tactics with each blow. Great Game too by the way.

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Yup! Played Amber alittle, but hard to get the books and get the feel for the world unfortunatley.

Also played Call of Chatulu and Rulemaster.

Shadowrun, alittle GURPS to. Traveller of course, Twilight 2000.. Cult..

Melnibone, that Elric based game..

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Y'all are newbies http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif I've played D&D since 1977, and still have some issues of Dragon magazine that number in the single digits. I stopped playing once they came out with the 2nd edition rules, but I've just started back up again with 3rd edition. I play a lot of Champions now, and while I own the Amber DRPG rules I've never played it. I'd like to though.

An "Old Farts" clan sounds like fun - I've been determined to stay neutral in the whole clan thing, but that would be very tempting.



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I still play 1E on a weekly basis. Still have my first set of dice
and still have all the hardcover books. Ive tried 3E but
we didnt play long enough for me to get a feel for it.

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Bullvye, I grew up 25 minutes from Lake Geneva, WI. I started playing D&D in the 70's when TSR wasnt even formed yet. All we had was a bag full of dice,3 small books, graph paper, pencils and a huge imagination. When you rolled a 18 back then..MAN! Masters generally didnt let you roll over for your characters either. What you rolled is what you baseed your character on. If you didnt like your character you would ask to be put in the front 3 and not to be carried out to be raised. Some of the very lawful characters were forced to carry you out anyway. When we were "down in someones castle" the master would call it like this.....
10,20 30 feet there is a door on the right and the passage continues north..what do you want to do? and in the mean time you have your graph paper marking every little detail called by the master. Hehe. This is a very long time ago now..but I think that there were only 4 different classes you could be. Fighter,Magic user,Thief,and Cleric. Other classes were added as time progressed and D&D pushed forward into a huge thing. I still remember my character in my older brothers castle http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif I retired at Lord of the 11th level http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif One time I subdued 2 Black dragons single handed..burned almost to a crisp I still managed to get them back to town and sell them. Ahh. the legend continues my freind. Originals still battle on!

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WOW!..You guys I'm so impressed. I never thought that there were so many old time AD&D players out there.
I too have some old Dragon magazines in the single digits, and remember the days of pencils and graph paper.( does anyone have the issue with the stats for Half-Ogre player characters?) But what a great bunch of players we would be! Old school! The way Gary Gygax intended the game to be played! I must be old, I never knew they came out with a 3rd edition!...LOL

How's this for a Clan's Name?...The Ancient's!

The thought of playing once again does bring a smile to my face. Most of the friends I had, and played with, have now gone about their own lives. I still keep in touch with two of them from 1982, but we hardly get the time anymore to play like the old days.( Our original characters are still alive and well,......no cheating, just a lot of years and a lot of luck! )

Anyway. Thanks everyone for responding. It brings be back to the old days.(OH, THE FUN WE HAD!! ) what do you guys say? Lets get together and show these kids (on-line) how this game is supposed to be played!http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

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I have played 1e also. I have been playing for 16 years now. I started when I was 14 years old. I have yet to play 3e PnP yet but I am involved in a few online 3e games right now.

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Hey lots of old 1st ed players here! I started in 1977, still have all my old books. I had about 75 Dragon magazines but gave them away a few years back, woops!Also played 2nd ed and have the books for third but havent played it. No players around here http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/frown.gif

Well here is another old timer! I started playing in college in 1979 and played 1st edition continuously until 2nd edition came out. At about that time a lot of personal changes took place: relocating, marriage, 1st edition friends moving on. Basically the group I traveled with refused to get caught up in the hype and especially the expense of 2E. Everytime you turned around there was a new book! My brother, brother-in-law, and I occassionally get together for 1E play. Rangers rocked in the first edition! In college we made up our own world. One of the guys even had a huge map that we made up on one of his room walls. I can still remember its name: "Map of Shifting Scales." We used a few Judges Guild products, especially Tegel Manor. Our DM at the time made sure that we used pencil andgraph paper because if you didn't and it wasn't recorded, tough luck. Later on I played under a DM who used the World of Greyhawk setting and he was absolutely phenomenol in using the basic background of politics and peoples to make my 1E experience the best ever. Well I guess that is enough nostagia. Anybody see my high elf F/T/M anywhere? He was my first rolled up character. *Sigh*

Bump for the old timers! http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

Yes we have a clan the O.L.D.C.O.O.T.S. I've been playing D&D since '79 and AD&D the only addition http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif since '80 or '81 (the memory ain't what it used to be)



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Airline ticket to Afghanistan $800
High powered rifle with scope $1000
Hotel room with roof access $100
A clean Head shot on that sack of Horse Manure Usuma Bin Laden PRICELESS!