Quote from: thedungeondelver;454401Awesome.

Looking forward to it. I have a feeling it will culminate with the original Castle Ravenloft module. Prior to that I will probably do some old school exploration adventure in my own campaign setting.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;454405Looking forward to it. I have a feeling it will culminate with the original Castle Ravenloft module. Prior to that I will probably do some old school exploration adventure in my own campaign setting.

If your party's high enough level after that, don't deny yourself a chance to run G1, G2 and G3, even if you skip D1-D3 and Q1.  The Giants modules are really loads of fun.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;454346Original D&D:

I disagree with this assertion.

I think OD&D would be more like the Beatles' "White Album".  

Quote from: thedungeondelver;454408If your party's high enough level after that, don't deny yourself a chance to run G1, G2 and G3, even if you skip D1-D3 and Q1.  The Giants modules are really loads of fun.

Are they still easy enough to find? Giant modules sound fun. I still have my old Castle Ravenloft module, but that is the only 1E module I have in possession right now.

Quote from: ggroy;454410I disagree with this assertion.

I think OD&D would be more like the Beatles' "White Album".  

Maybe it is because their LOR references and songs like Immigrant Song, but I have always made an association between D&D and Led Zep.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;454412Maybe it is because their LOR references and songs like Immigrant Song, but I have always made an association between D&D and Led Zep.

Nah.  

More like the weirdness and complete artistic freedom on the "White Album", and sounding like it was haphazardly put together.  A classic.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;454411Are they still easy enough to find? Giant modules sound fun. I still have my old Castle Ravenloft module, but that is the only 1E module I have in possession right now.

Behold!

At Amazon

One at Nobleknight for $12.

And of course, ebay.

Heck I may even have a spare copy still.  PM me.

EDIT: and they are TONS of fun.  Are they railroady?  Certainly no more than I6!  And certainly less than that awful Dragonlance.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;454346Original D&D:



AD&D:

I can find no fault with those.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;454346aaaand 2nd edition AD&D:

This is just mean.

For some of us, AD&D 2e was more like this:

I think 2e works better as a system than 1e, and also has a lot more material. The downside to 2e was the massive amount of garbage that was produced along with the good stuff. Naturally that's a subjective judgment.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;454417EDIT: and they are TONS of fun.  Are they railroady?  Certainly no more than I6!  And certainly less than that awful Dragonlance.

I can second this, even though I have only played a small part of the G-series.  The D/G series, along with T1-4, are the highlights of 1e for me.  Which reminds me, I still need to get them all in hardcopy.

2e AD&D was a better fit for DragonLance than 1e AD&D.  I ran the DL1-14 series of modules using 1e AD&D, and the system did not fit the concept well; especially with how dragons were defined in the 1e AD&D system.  The Smörgåsbord way of making characters in 2e AD&D with kits and proficiencies was a better fit the character types of the game milieu.  The redefinition of dragons in 2e AD&D helped create an atmosphere where lower level characters could reasonably face dragons and survive without significant casualties.

IIRC Khisanth, the first dragon encountered by the group in the first module, smoked 4 characters with its acid breath.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;454412Maybe it is because their LOR references and songs like Immigrant Song, but I have always made an association between D&D and Led Zep.

Ditto.

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;454388Well, after this discussion I definitely intend to run a 1E campaign when my   2E game is done.

Cool. This discussion makes me want to run G-D-Q.

Quote from: Benoist;454462Cool. This discussion makes me want to run G-D-Q.

If you run it pbp count me in.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;454463If you run it pbp count me in.

I'm going to remember this, and remind you of it.