Reading through all of TSR's D&D products
As with the second one, the first page describing how to use it, in addition to the examples, are a verbatim copy from the first M&T Assortment. And the second page is the same as M&TA2, even with the same drawing. I’m not sure I understand why this came out so long after the first …
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Ok, so strictly speaking, this was never distributed by TSR but I wanted to read it anyway and I think others may want to conclude the Wee Warriors trilogy as well. So, here we get a huge expansion in scope. Palace of the Vampire Queen was a single building. Dwarven Glory was slightly larger – …
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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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 …
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. …
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 …
Continue reading “Monster & Treasure Assortment Set One: Levels One-Three”
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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I don’t have this. Here you can see a reproduction of the sheet taken from Jasper’s Rantings. he recreated it as a pdf so you can download and print it. You can see some good photos of original copies here and here. These character record sheets incorporate all the various elements that make up characters …
Although Palace of the Vampire Queen can claim to be the first published D&D module (not counting Blackmoor, which is more of a scenario), Lost Caverns of Tsojconth is the first published D&D module written by someone from TSR, i.e. Gygax. It wasn’t actually published by TSR though – it was published by MDG (Metro …
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I was kind of dreading this book a bit, expecting a lot of tedious miniatures rules that I’d mostly skip. However, even though there were some very dry bits, it turned out to be quite a quick read (unlike Gods, Demi-Gods and Heroes). Probably the most interesting parts of these older books are the Forewords …