Again with the dodgy cover – same guy as last one. I won’t mention his name out of respect. Finally an ad for the Basic Set! And there’s an ad for issue 1 of White Dwarf. Gygax has an article about character alignments and handling situations where character alignments differ. Probably the most interesting bit …
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Monster & Treasure Assortment Set Two: Levels Four-Six
More of the same. All the instruction text is exactly the same, complete with the same example as Set 1 – ie they didn’t bother updating it with an example from Set 2. Illustrations Cover is apparently by Dave Trampier. Two of the internal illustrations are signed by Dave C Sutherland. There’s also a rather …
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Basic Set (Holmes)
This may get long. This is just a review of the Basic rule book. Coverage of the other items, such as the Geomorphs that came in the first printing and the B1 & B2 modules that came in later printings are dealt with separately. I’ve been looking forward to reading this since starting this project. …
The Dragon #8 Vol 2.2
I dunno about you but I think that’s a pretty darn ugly cover. Apologies to the artist. The best part of the magazine is a very interesting article by Gygax about the Planes of existence. Although the planes have been mentioned in spells and items in the supplements, this is the first time the concept …
Outdoor Geomorphs Set One: Walled City
This is the last Geomorphs set. There were 3 more sets for future release that never happened – Castle/Fortress Outdoor Geomorphs, Ruins Geomorphs and Rooms, Chambers & Passages. They appear in the product list on the last page of this set and the 2nd printing of the Holmes Basic D&D book (in the product list …
The Dwarven Glory
Dungeon Masters Kit – Number 2 Check out those dwarves! Check out that treasure! Check out that weird archway? Like Palace of the Vampire Queen, this wasn’t created by TSR but is included here because it was distributed by them. The weirdest thing about this? It uses hex maps, where every hex is 3 feet. …
The Dragon #7 Vol 2.1
It’s announced that (the artist) Tom Wham is now on the staff of TSR. An article that wouldn’t make any sense in our current world – What to do if you lose your dice and you have players coming over to play. No-one has any dice? How could that ever be possible?! Probably the most …
Monster & Treasure Assortment Set One: Levels One-Three
It’s a list of monsters. And a list of treasure. No seriously. That’s about it. Ok, so I guess if we consider when this came out, there were no published adventure modules, so you had to come up with your own dungeons, and I guess this made it a bit easier. Apparently most of the …
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Dungeon Geomorphs Set Three: Lower Dungeons
Yet more of the same. Of note, Set One was By Gary Gygax. Set Two was by Gary and Ernie. This one is back to just Gary. As with the other sets, you can read the example encounter descriptions at Greyhawk Online. Date Information The copyright date is September 21st 1977 but that’s also the …
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Dungeon Geomorphs Set Two: Caves & Caverns
More of the same. What’s surprising to me is how much of a gap there was between the first set and this one – almost a full year! (That’s assuming the date of the first set is anywhere near correct.) As with the first set, you can read the example encounter descriptions at Greyhawk Online. …
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