Oh my, look what I have done

[The Dungeon Master]

There comes a time in every little OCD-plagued DM's life that he finally has an epiphany.
I have such an apostrophe ("lighting has struck my brain," "That must have hurt")
Since I do not write my own material I am constantly bouncing from edition to edition, module to module, in an effort to keep things fresh and challenging; the order of which I relatively recently decided would be predicated on the Geek-rating system at rpggeek.com.
It satisfied me not.
There were too many logistical questions (if it's not the right level, do we just create higher-level characters?; if the second part of a series is highly-rated, but the first is not, which rating do we base the series on?", etc. ad infinitum and nauseum).
Such were the concerns that occupied more time than you would think probable or necessary in my fevered little mind.
Then it hit me: I will re-create history (that thing which historians always warn us we are doomed to do if we are not careful an don;t learn from the past.) Pish to that says I!
I will re-create gaming as it was published, first by TSR, using only those rule sets available at the time each module was published, along with Dragon magazine articles out at the time.
In this way we will see the game grow as it actually grew, with rules additions, game expansions, world revealings and clown invadings (one of these things is not like the others...)
So that's it in a nutshell and me as a nutcase.
More to come concerning what rules we are and are not going to use.

[The Dungeon Master]

So it all started with these pamphlets, you see...
And I will not be using those unless as a reference for something not covered by a subsequent rules set.

Also I will not be using the Basic version as edited by Dr. Holmes, as it sort of dead-ended and led to AD&D (which we will get to later).

But to start D&D Basic (or Classic, as it is now known) we will begin with the Moldvay Basic edition, first included in the Magenta box with the Erol Otus Art. As www.acaeum tells us this is actually the eighth printing of the basic rules, the previous printings having been the Holmes edition.
To be correct, In Search of the Unknown came out two years before this rules set was printed, but since we are not going to use the Holmes version (there are enough rules differences for it to be distinct) this is the part of history we will re-invent, just a bit, so we stick with playing a similar game going forward.

More to come

Attachments: