tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4861350035587930909.post6552440877768770035..comments2024-03-20T20:03:56.127+00:00Comments on THE GREAT GAME: Milestones in gaming #3: Red Box Dungeons and DragonsStuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01863160473105489597noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4861350035587930909.post-82132476126922672562013-11-19T21:23:28.323+00:002013-11-19T21:23:28.323+00:00LOOT! EACH! 500gold crowns please! Me wanna GRI...LOOT! EACH! 500gold crowns please! Me wanna GRIMMoire! GRIMMMMMMM! Not sure if Stuart can make it this Friday though, him having been laid low with a nasty lurgy n all!! :SBenTheFerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12760136651496176499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4861350035587930909.post-27243982348499556702013-11-19T19:11:02.557+00:002013-11-19T19:11:02.557+00:00Just you wait Ferguson, you'll be getting some...Just you wait Ferguson, you'll be getting some "loot" soon enough!thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4861350035587930909.post-86651255407278089282013-11-19T18:55:04.621+00:002013-11-19T18:55:04.621+00:00Waiting for the pasta to cook..... moth to a flame...Waiting for the pasta to cook..... moth to a flame....<br /><br />READ loads of AD&D modules in the early 80s. Never ran any of them (to memory) as they were...rather I stole ideas and used them... like the Against the Giants.... SO DULL as written! But liked the idea of parts of it - and incorporated giant slavers (with drow behind them) as villains - but it was more sandboxy - and had epic encounter zones - not the lame room after room of giants! Ridiculous. As usual for any game I ran then/ now, the pcs were totally over-tooled - dwarf fighter with gauntlets of ogre strength, belt of giant strength and a dwarven hammer at 9th level.... epic - but annoying!! :)BenTheFerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12760136651496176499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4861350035587930909.post-80975618335834068762013-11-19T18:25:37.885+00:002013-11-19T18:25:37.885+00:00and sadly - despite running PF up till level 15 re...and sadly - despite running PF up till level 15 recently - or Advanced D&D up to level 9 (sixth form ended and the group - up to 12 players sometimes - went their separate ways!!) - despite all that - no bags of LOOT for me. Well - other than the virtual kind - but generally El Kel is too MEAN with giving us any swag of note! Bah humbug!BenTheFerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12760136651496176499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4861350035587930909.post-59904262677701814072013-11-19T18:22:44.787+00:002013-11-19T18:22:44.787+00:00Being 1000s of years older than Stuart, the saplin...Being 1000s of years older than Stuart, the sapling that he is, let alone El Green, who was not even a small seed when I first got my hands on the original Blue Book for D&D - waaay before Basic D&D of the 1980s..... but yes - those days - we were younger, it was new, and being 'well young', there is a nostalgia factor I am sure at work. Those games - despite their anomalies (low AC good (?), rolling high good - unless it was a save - then roll low! etc)... were accessible (relatively) compared to what came after: Rolemaster....then 3e D&D/ PF (which is mathematically complicated!!)<br /><br />But on a matter of fact: Stuart - you got to level 13 with your Barbarian Artemisia before El Ric bailed and went ooooop norf n all waaay back over 2 years ago.....when we suspended the campaign Kingmaker for our newbie - so we started (abortively for a while) Carrion Crown. (Which was a shame since we should have simply ploughed on!!)BenTheFerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12760136651496176499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4861350035587930909.post-20725254440004756782013-11-19T18:04:29.714+00:002013-11-19T18:04:29.714+00:00Hang on, I thought that B2 was included with the 1...Hang on, I thought that B2 was included with the 1981 basic set, not this one? There is a short adventure in the dungeon master's book but it's not B2. That said, I do know that a lot of these boxes were sold with different or extra contents so perhaps you had one of those.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.com