Moldvay Basic (BX) page B61: PLAYING SURFACE: Combats are easy to keep track of when large sheets of graph paper, covered with plexiglass or transparent adhesive plastic (contact paper), are used to put the figures on. The best sheets for this use have 1" squares, and the scale of 1" = 5' should be used when moving the figures. With water-based markers or grease pencils, an entire room or battle can be drawn in just a few seconds. When the battle is over, the board may be wiped off, leaving it ready for the next combat.
That's awesome! Be sure and capture that old school Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms sense of story and adventure! Don't forget magic items are FUN, so be sure and dig through your Dungeon Master's Guide and pick out really special items for your players! Last tip: Restrict yourself to Fiend Folio monsters. it will make you more creative!
@@Classic_DM It is going GREAT! They were a little chuffed about not having 50+ juiced up lvl 1 races and they found out 5e had nerfed a lot of monsters but we've been rolling for, well since before Thanksgiving and they are really enjoying the challenge and flavor! None of them had ever been thru several of these old school adventures which has been awesome and I'm having an absolute blast running them, White Plume has been a big highlight!
5e measures everything in feet. 1e measures movement in feet within confined spaces such as dungeons. However its measured in yards outdoors. If the base movement of a human is 12 feet in a dungeon, then it is 36 feet outdoors. In 5e the range of a longbow is up to 150 feet indoors, or outside. 1e the range is 70 feet indoors, and 210 feet outside. 5e uses a disadvantage attack rolls for maximum range of 600 feet. Meanwhile, 1e uses a -5 to attack roll modifier. When firing to hit a a target from a maxium range of 210 feet indoors, or 630 feet outside.
It's always worth remembering that AD&D was intended to be played as an open table style of game, with more players playing the campaign as a whole than can necessarily sit at the table in any one session, with multiple parties in the same world potentially adventuring in the same places at different times. It was expected that most players would eventually have two or three active characters, so while one was spending time training for a new level or healing from injuries sustained in the last adventure (or even just out of play until other characters catch up with them chronologically), another could be played. Of course, how a game is played and how it's intended to be played are different things.
The AD&D advice is great, the house rules not so much. “Spells are really powerful in AD&D” “Assume everyone (including magic users) have max hp. “ “Make all spells require 1 round to cast (except the ones that take turns)” In other words, take the system where the biggest flaw is how powerful magic users are compared to everyone else and make them even more powerful.
Magic Users are powerful but only when they have spells they can cast that express that power, in my opinion. Many times, the MU is relied on for utility spells and damage output, but thus is very limited even at level 10+. This means a MU's first instinct is to not cast and hold back until casting turns the tide of the battle. Spell recovery is quite long for all casters which is probably why every subsequent edition fiddled with this. Lsstly, like the monk, 1d4 H.P. per level, often with no CON bonus, bad AC, useless martial abilities (darts, daggers, staves, can't land a hit etc) makes MU/ILL feel like a black powder musketeer on the battlefield surrounded by Vikings, Knights, or Apachees. Imagine being level 14 in the Vault of the Drow and your H.P. on average is 20. Even so, AD&D is perhaps the most creative, content robust, original, and magical game system ever created that changed everything. Thanks for watching and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Classic Traveller videos and the 4E Design and Features video too!
I kinda know why there are no comments here. As a AD&D player since Dec. 1978, I still remember how to to play this . I am retired and living in the town where I learned how to play, and I figured that there would be kindred souls, here... but I was wrong. And people look at me funny when I mention playing AD&D. I thank you for your effort on this project.
The hardest part of getting new players to play 1st edition AD&D, is getting them to realize "this is the game" (show them the 3 books), and make them understand, they only need the PHB. And there won't be any other books (for the players). Not many races, not many classes but most importantly 1st level is very dangerous. They likely will die before 2nd level. Only the skilled gamer makes it to 3rd level. There is no mercy in real AD&D. Protect your magic user, do as your cleric tells you, and make sure the fighter gets the best weapons and armour.
Thats what keeps me playing 1st and 2nd ed, THE DANGER LEVELS! Newer versions almost make you a GOD, and almost impossible to kill. Look at Energy Drain for example.
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 I have little experience with the older systems at the table. Mostly played them in older video games. But weren't high level characters in 1e and 2e also absurdly powerful, specially wizards? I feel like at some point they get even stronger than 5e ones.
Thank you for the video. Long story short, I only started playing D&D in 2020, but was first introduced to it in 1980. Being a child of the 70's and 80's I have a hankering to play an AD&D 1e campaign. Since I can't find others who are interested where I live, I may have to start my own online group to explore some of the early campaigns.
It's REALLY tough to get a game of the older editions since most younger folks are playing 5e or Magic the Gathering. There are a few Facebook groups with older players who like to play online! facebook.com/groups/837061783726944 facebook.com/groups/dungeonsanddads facebook.com/groups/1631263480503022 facebook.com/groups/OSRIC1E
@@Classic_DM This is fantastic. Thank you! I've also registered to attend GaryCon virtually and was able to get onto an old-school campaign there as well. Super excited!
This is awesome my friend. I'm 57 and played as a middle schooler as well. The slave lords was by far my favorite adventure sessions of all time. Thanks for giving that series so much love.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment! This is really the reason I do this. To capture the nostalgia of that magical time in our lives where our imagination travelled across Greyhawk in search of adventure!
I'm happy to hear that and thank you for the kind words! I love AD&D with a few little house rules around time, movement, and the melee round. There are so many really neat modules to play that are dirt cheap on Drive Thru RPG as well.
Great video bud 😁 I got OSRIC myself has things cleaned up a bitI like it. I am running Shadowdark with an OSRIC megadungeon (OSRIC is AD&D anyway) using good bit of the rules from it pretty much a hybrid mix of the two to a homebrew set. All of these things and other OSR games work together with little to no work. I have tons of PDFs from older adventures, again they work so well I love it all. I think I might end up running Just OSRIC system with the adventures. Again it's just easier to read tbh. Again great video. I liked your 4th Ed video. It was my first system
At first I thought I would really like 4th Edition because it seemed to scale down the melee rounds until I had to deal with powers (utility, encounter, daily, etc) which was like having to memorize complicated spells for any class. I started with 1E, I was 12 when it first came out, after all these years and many versions I am returning to my favorite edition, 1E.
@@Classic_DM Delete all the powers (utility, encounter, at will) and it would have been a great setup. The last thing I wanted was to play a fighter but have to memorize spell like abilities.
I always crack up at old-timers pitching a fit about the idea of houseruling ADnD as if it's some sacred text. Don't pretend like people wasn't hacking it up back in the day!
I'm here to not just learn how to play Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition. But also to learn how to Dungeonmaster Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition.
Be sure and check out the White Plume Mountain playlist or the Tomb of Horrors playlist here on tge channel. If you use Foundry VTT, there is an older Classic DM Detail series that walks through the first floor of G1, Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. Each of those videos have extensive discussion on what the original modules says and how players often respond which is how a Dungeon Master needs to think.
The mean value for the ability score checks appear to be wrong. Rolling 3d6 has a mean value of 10.5, not 7.5, the same as for a single d20. 4d6 has a mean value of 14, while 5d6 has 17.5. I would rather go with 2d6 (7) for easy, 3d6 (10.5) for simple, 4d6 (14) for difficult, and 5d6 (17.5) for extremely difficult. Just remember that the chances are all on a bell curve, that is most rolls will fall at or near the average value.
Great! You'll have tons of time to prepare! When you sit down to run the game, be sure and find a good old school module to run and don't limit yourself to level 1-3 as this is when player characters are the absolute weakest.
I'll need to check into that! We never bought that book when it came out as it was during our Classic Traveller binge in College at FAMU School of Architecture.
Question If I am just getting into AD&D and I recently bought the POD versions, is it still worth it to get the originals? I know on ebay they can be a bit pricey but is there any reason to or just stick with what I already have?
As much as it's good to have the reprints, it's also good to have the originals. It's nice to have something physical, you can print those by scanning them as much as you want, and they're just nicer.
@@TheGateShallStand I'd normally agree, but you will either have to have had them for 50 years (and treated them very kindly, or settle for getting used 50 year old books. (and hope they were treated kindly). As for scanning, well that was already down many years ago. It's just nice that we can order a new hardcover often for close to the price to have it printed out by a professional (and not hardcover.
Great video . I dropped 5e because the setting material felt pretty weak. Paizo is generally better, but PF2e feels too much like playing a card game with all the abilities and features that classes get. I generally don’t like rules that codify with special abilities and actions what players should just be able to say they do. It creates lazy players, and at that point I’d rather just play a video game. I struggled a bit starting with OSRIC as the layout felt a bit weird and there’s some general ambiguity built into 1e. More recently I bought into 2e , and while there’s some extra fiddly bits , it’s much easier to follow along.
I agree 100% on Pathfinder 2e. It's a game of 25,000 feats. Can you imagine all the delays in the game as every time someone uses a whack-ass feat we all have to figure out how it works?
the entire reason why i'm watching this is to build a custom dnd world, combined with 2nd edition, 5th edition, and i want to make it unique with average high fantasy with dark parts, like devils, hp lovecraft monsters (an optinal lore rule such as the world is a dream) were also gonna keep tieflings and not add a whole lotta races
That's a a great idea. I had it on my website years ago but deleted it. I'll toss up a free *.PDF in the next few days. Be sure and check here from time to time. www.telliotcannon.com/shop
I see that a lot of things in the first editions of D&D are calculated with percentages. Isn't this a hassle to calculate sometimes? Or is it all just in intervals of 5%, and you can just roll a d20 to determine the percentage?
Just saw your video, and I just wanted to ask if you could clarify something. I've seen a lot of comments on these hardback re-prints of 1st ed, and people are saying it has a lot of type o's and garbled sentences, likely a result of scanning and re-scanning the original material and not properly edited it after. Can you confirm this? Great vid, btw 🤘
Are you sure you got spell recovery right? You don’t need to spend 8 hours memorizing but just sleeping/resting. I also think the means for the ability checks are not 100% accurate… But I liked the video very much! :-)
It's up to you really. House rules and what not. 8* hours works as well. It really only effects casters as martial characters have no combat abilities to "reset" The good thing is whatever you do passes as fast as a sentence and maybe a wandering monster roll. Me math = not Marc MIller!
@@Classic_DM Here in Fl, there is convention for Old RPGers- they only play rpgs from the 70s and 80s. I'm the only gamer I know that likes this stuff. It's in the bowels of Orlando. I'd never find it.
I think you are bringing a lot of stuff that takes the fun out of AD&D, by using a lot of new rules from 5e. 1e/2e are so much different than 5e, if you start bringing a lot of rules from 5e into the original AD&D, you are really taking away the joy of the older games. Just not a fan of the later editions. I started with 1e, and we brought some things in from 2e, but mostly kept the basis of 1e in one campaign and used mostly 2e in a second campaign. The uniqueness of 1e/2e is really, really destroyed by just one or two 5e rules. I hate to hear is someone is killing the old time game.
Also, I think it's strange that you talk about tactics and strategy near the end (running instead of fighting or, as we used to do... PARLEY!), but the first house rule is max hit points. We had max hp at 1st and 2nd level. After that you rolled and lived with what you got. That created MORE, not less, strategic decisions and made it that much more fun. For initiative, we always rolled a d20. Critical hit and flub were in our campaigns also. Finally, we had a temple we could go to for raising the dead. The cost was staggering and often required the individual to be in DEEP debt and/or do something ridiculously difficult for the church IMMEDIATELY. It was like casting a wish spell. Anything could happen, and usually did. So it wasn't something we did often unless someone was VERY tied to their character or their character was a major plot motivator/mover. One time a player had to change sex (from a she to a he), another time a player had to change class and become a cleric of the God, and once a fighter was only allowed to use hammers as weapons (by being raised by a cleric of Thor). Lots of interesting stuff, lots of interactions with the Gods themselves, being given choices of life or whatever. Fun times.
I don't even play 5e. I think changing the melee round to 6 sec (from 60 seconds) and adjusting the movement rate to match makes the moment-to-moment combat more engaging. Everything else stays the same.
Here are my Heroic House Rules.
www.telliotcannon.com/shop/heroic-house-rules-for-first-edition-osric
Moldvay Basic (BX) page B61:
PLAYING SURFACE: Combats are easy to keep track of when
large sheets of graph paper, covered with plexiglass or transparent
adhesive plastic (contact paper), are used to put the figures on. The
best sheets for this use have 1" squares, and the scale of 1" = 5'
should be used when moving the figures. With water-based
markers or grease pencils, an entire room or battle can be drawn in
just a few seconds. When the battle is over, the board may be
wiped off, leaving it ready for the next combat.
Got some 5e'ers actually ready to go old school in my new world build once current campaign is finished, Sooo looking forward to it!
That's awesome! Be sure and capture that old school Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms sense of story and adventure!
Don't forget magic items are FUN, so be sure and dig through your Dungeon Master's Guide and pick out really special items for your players!
Last tip: Restrict yourself to Fiend Folio monsters. it will make you more creative!
How did it go?
@@Classic_DM It is going GREAT! They were a little chuffed about not having 50+ juiced up lvl 1 races and they found out 5e had nerfed a lot of monsters but we've been rolling for, well since before Thanksgiving and they are really enjoying the challenge and flavor! None of them had ever been thru several of these old school adventures which has been awesome and I'm having an absolute blast running them, White Plume has been a big highlight!
@@Snoil Awesome! Be sure and check out my White Plume Mountain DM's guide!
th-cam.com/play/PL4eDfZIBxlUaz1D5IcOB2T9CKne2ekMTZ.html
@@Classic_DM Just building a new crew (they came to me, they are mine precious! lol) so yeah heading there soon!
5e measures everything in feet. 1e measures movement in feet within confined spaces such as dungeons. However its measured in yards outdoors. If the base movement of a human is 12 feet in a dungeon, then it is 36 feet outdoors.
In 5e the range of a longbow is up to 150 feet indoors, or outside. 1e the range is 70 feet indoors, and 210 feet outside. 5e uses a disadvantage attack rolls for maximum range of 600 feet. Meanwhile, 1e uses a -5 to attack roll modifier. When firing to hit a a target from a maxium range of 210 feet indoors, or 630 feet outside.
Nothing wrong with House Rules. It's what makes the D&D world go round.
It's always worth remembering that AD&D was intended to be played as an open table style of game, with more players playing the campaign as a whole than can necessarily sit at the table in any one session, with multiple parties in the same world potentially adventuring in the same places at different times. It was expected that most players would eventually have two or three active characters, so while one was spending time training for a new level or healing from injuries sustained in the last adventure (or even just out of play until other characters catch up with them chronologically), another could be played.
Of course, how a game is played and how it's intended to be played are different things.
AD&D changed everything, despite some of its goofy numbers for movement and combat time.
The AD&D advice is great, the house rules not so much.
“Spells are really powerful in AD&D”
“Assume everyone (including magic users) have max hp. “
“Make all spells require 1 round to cast (except the ones that take turns)”
In other words, take the system where the biggest flaw is how powerful magic users are compared to everyone else and make them even more powerful.
Magic Users are powerful but only when they have spells they can cast that express that power, in my opinion.
Many times, the MU is relied on for utility spells and damage output, but thus is very limited even at level 10+. This means a MU's first instinct is to not cast and hold back until casting turns the tide of the battle. Spell recovery is quite long for all casters which is probably why every subsequent edition fiddled with this.
Lsstly, like the monk, 1d4 H.P. per level, often with no CON bonus, bad AC, useless martial abilities (darts, daggers, staves, can't land a hit etc) makes MU/ILL feel like a black powder musketeer on the battlefield surrounded by Vikings, Knights, or Apachees.
Imagine being level 14 in the Vault of the Drow and your H.P. on average is 20.
Even so, AD&D is perhaps the most creative, content robust, original, and magical game system ever created that changed everything.
Thanks for watching and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Classic Traveller videos and the 4E Design and Features video too!
I play AD&D games with friends once a month. We usually play for 8-10 hours at a time. I'm so happy I kept all my old books.
You are blessed. All we have around here is MTG, Lorcana, 40k, and 11 year olds. : (
I kinda know why there are no comments here. As a AD&D player since Dec. 1978, I still remember how to to play this . I am retired and living in the town where I learned how to play, and I figured that there would be kindred souls, here... but I was wrong. And people look at me funny when I mention playing AD&D.
I thank you for your effort on this project.
Us old school folks have limited time to dork around on TH-cam maybe. Still, AD&D is amazing and fun.
@@Classic_DM The nostalgia is weak on these people.
Man, get online and get playing again! I've used Fantasy Grounds for the last 12 years or so... play 3 nights a week.
@@JohnDretired I loved Foundry VTT until the latest release that killed all my PDFs.
@@JohnDretired working my way to that.
I loved that "what was that" when some random battle roar in chill background music appeared
Hahah! Scary business those Adrian von Ziegler tracks!
www.youtube.com/@AdrianvonZiegler
The hardest part of getting new players to play 1st edition AD&D, is getting them to realize "this is the game" (show them the 3 books), and make them understand, they only need the PHB. And there won't be any other books (for the players). Not many races, not many classes but most importantly 1st level is very dangerous. They likely will die before 2nd level. Only the skilled gamer makes it to 3rd level. There is no mercy in real AD&D. Protect your magic user, do as your cleric tells you, and make sure the fighter gets the best weapons and armour.
I agree completely. I always suggest players start out at level 3 or so with max hit points.
Thats what keeps me playing 1st and 2nd ed, THE DANGER LEVELS! Newer versions almost make you a GOD, and almost impossible to kill. Look at Energy Drain for example.
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 I have little experience with the older systems at the table. Mostly played them in older video games. But weren't high level characters in 1e and 2e also absurdly powerful, specially wizards? I feel like at some point they get even stronger than 5e ones.
Thank you for the video. Long story short, I only started playing D&D in 2020, but was first introduced to it in 1980. Being a child of the 70's and 80's I have a hankering to play an AD&D 1e campaign. Since I can't find others who are interested where I live, I may have to start my own online group to explore some of the early campaigns.
It's REALLY tough to get a game of the older editions since most younger folks are playing 5e or Magic the Gathering. There are a few Facebook groups with older players who like to play online!
facebook.com/groups/837061783726944
facebook.com/groups/dungeonsanddads
facebook.com/groups/1631263480503022
facebook.com/groups/OSRIC1E
@@Classic_DM This is fantastic. Thank you! I've also registered to attend GaryCon virtually and was able to get onto an old-school campaign there as well. Super excited!
Thank you, I was having such a hard time finding videos on ad&d
Thanks for making the time to pass along feedback. It very cool of you! Please let your friends know!
This is awesome my friend. I'm 57 and played as a middle schooler as well. The slave lords was by far my favorite adventure sessions of all time. Thanks for giving that series so much love.
Thank you for your thoughtful comment!
This is really the reason I do this. To capture the nostalgia of that magical time in our lives where our imagination travelled across Greyhawk in search of adventure!
Loved the video. Really good recap of the best parts of this underrated fun system. Running a 1e game twice a month and loving it!
I'm happy to hear that and thank you for the kind words! I love AD&D with a few little house rules around time, movement, and the melee round.
There are so many really neat modules to play that are dirt cheap on Drive Thru RPG as well.
Great show and thanks for recommending the reprints because I had no Idea they existed.
They are clean and worth getting. Even if you despise WotC just get them now and you're set.
Great video bud 😁 I got OSRIC myself has things cleaned up a bitI like it. I am running Shadowdark with an OSRIC megadungeon (OSRIC is AD&D anyway) using good bit of the rules from it pretty much a hybrid mix of the two to a homebrew set. All of these things and other OSR games work together with little to no work. I have tons of PDFs from older adventures, again they work so well I love it all. I think I might end up running Just OSRIC system with the adventures. Again it's just easier to read tbh. Again great video. I liked your 4th Ed video. It was my first system
Thanks for the cool comments and feedback! I REALLY miss playing!!
At first I thought I would really like 4th Edition because it seemed to scale down the melee rounds until I had to deal with powers (utility, encounter, daily, etc) which was like having to memorize complicated spells for any class. I started with 1E, I was 12 when it first came out, after all these years and many versions I am returning to my favorite edition, 1E.
I love AD&D with just a few minor house rules for time and movement. 4E is a really robust system, but has almost too many attack options.
@@Classic_DM Delete all the powers (utility, encounter, at will) and it would have been a great setup. The last thing I wanted was to play a fighter but have to memorize spell like abilities.
So glad I still have original copies of all of these books.
Awesome!
Me too. And the deities that has cthulhu and elric mythos....
I have read a LOT of Forgotten Realms books, BUT only adventure in Greyhawk!
I've been learning 5e for the past 3 years. I reconnected with my old DM back in 2001. He still plays AD&D. Now, I have to learn AD&D.
Thankfully AD&D is simple. I highly suggest using house rules for the melee round down to 6 seconds.
I always crack up at old-timers pitching a fit about the idea of houseruling ADnD as if it's some sacred text. Don't pretend like people wasn't hacking it up back in the day!
We didn't just change rules. We bounced between campaigns and unifying rules was important
I'm here to not just learn how to play Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition.
But also to learn how to Dungeonmaster Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1st edition.
Be sure and check out the White Plume Mountain playlist or the Tomb of Horrors playlist here on tge channel. If you use Foundry VTT, there is an older Classic DM Detail series that walks through the first floor of G1, Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. Each of those videos have extensive discussion on what the original modules says and how players often respond which is how a Dungeon Master needs to think.
The mean value for the ability score checks appear to be wrong. Rolling 3d6 has a mean value of 10.5, not 7.5, the same as for a single d20. 4d6 has a mean value of 14, while 5d6 has 17.5.
I would rather go with 2d6 (7) for easy, 3d6 (10.5) for simple, 4d6 (14) for difficult, and 5d6 (17.5) for extremely difficult. Just remember that the chances are all on a bell curve, that is most rolls will fall at or near the average value.
Great catch and suggestions! Thank you.
😉
I am planning run 1e next year
Great! You'll have tons of time to prepare!
When you sit down to run the game, be sure and find a good old school module to run and don't limit yourself to level 1-3 as this is when player characters are the absolute weakest.
I played AD&D for years as a DM and now for the life of me, I can’t remember how to play. Time to buckle down and re-learn.
OSRIC is a great FREE place to start.
osricrpg.com/get.php
I generally don’t care for Unearthed Arcana BUT it’s rules for unarmed combat are so much better than the rules in the DMG.
I'll need to check into that! We never bought that book when it came out as it was during our Classic Traveller binge in College at FAMU School of Architecture.
Monster Manual II is amazing - just WOTC and not releasing many of these resource to being PoD.
Question If I am just getting into AD&D and I recently bought the POD versions, is it still worth it to get the originals? I know on ebay they can be a bit pricey but is there any reason to or just stick with what I already have?
Nope! Stick with reprints.
Zero difference
Except boogers, old glue, and Billy Waverson's name in ballpoint ink inside.
I have the PoD items likely better physical books than the originals.
As much as it's good to have the reprints, it's also good to have the originals. It's nice to have something physical, you can print those by scanning them as much as you want, and they're just nicer.
@@TheGateShallStand I'd normally agree, but you will either have to have had them for 50 years (and treated them very kindly, or settle for getting used 50 year old books. (and hope they were treated kindly). As for scanning, well that was already down many years ago. It's just nice that we can order a new hardcover often for close to the price to have it printed out by a professional (and not hardcover.
Great video .
I dropped 5e because the setting material felt pretty weak. Paizo is generally better, but PF2e feels too much like playing a card game with all the abilities and features that classes get.
I generally don’t like rules that codify with special abilities and actions what players should just be able to say they do. It creates lazy players, and at that point I’d rather just play a video game.
I struggled a bit starting with OSRIC as the layout felt a bit weird and there’s some general ambiguity built into 1e.
More recently I bought into 2e , and while there’s some extra fiddly bits , it’s much easier to follow along.
I agree 100% on Pathfinder 2e. It's a game of 25,000 feats. Can you imagine all the delays in the game as every time someone uses a whack-ass feat we all have to figure out how it works?
the entire reason why i'm watching this is to build a custom dnd world, combined with 2nd edition, 5th edition, and i want to make it unique with average high fantasy with dark parts, like devils, hp lovecraft monsters (an optinal lore rule such as the world is a dream) were also gonna keep tieflings and not add a whole lotta races
Any chance you can link to a pdf or page with your house rules?
That's a a great idea. I had it on my website years ago but deleted it. I'll toss up a free *.PDF in the next few days. Be sure and check here from time to time.
www.telliotcannon.com/shop
@ thank you so much! Your enthusiasm and wisdom is really inspiring! I appreciate you replying so fast too! Keep up the great work!
@@timetunnelpro I found my copy from 2021. I'll clean it up and post it for free probably late today.
Here you go
www.telliotcannon.com/shop/heroic-house-rules-for-first-edition-osric
I see that a lot of things in the first editions of D&D are calculated with percentages. Isn't this a hassle to calculate sometimes? Or is it all just in intervals of 5%, and you can just roll a d20 to determine the percentage?
Use 2, d10s www.dicedragons.co.uk/blogs/dice-advice/how-to-roll-a-d100
Just saw your video, and I just wanted to ask if you could clarify something. I've seen a lot of comments on these hardback re-prints of 1st ed, and people are saying it has a lot of type o's and garbled sentences, likely a result of scanning and re-scanning the original material and not properly edited it after.
Can you confirm this?
Great vid, btw 🤘
Mine are perfect. Very clean. They were reformatted from scratch in 2012.
@@Classic_DM Thank you, Sir 🙏
Now I know what's next on my list 😄
Are you sure you got spell recovery right? You don’t need to spend 8 hours memorizing but just sleeping/resting.
I also think the means for the ability checks are not 100% accurate…
But I liked the video very much! :-)
It's up to you really. House rules and what not. 8* hours works as well. It really only effects casters as martial characters have no combat abilities to "reset"
The good thing is whatever you do passes as fast as a sentence and maybe a wandering monster roll.
Me math = not Marc MIller!
You need a certain amount of rest and then a certain amount of time per spell level to memorize. It is in the DMG.
@@JohnDretired That works! Got a table for that?
How do you work the interrupting of spells?
If you take damage.
Any spell that 1 round or more is succeptible to being hit.
@@Classic_DM I think I understand how it works. I haven't dm-ed enough to get it. Thank you.
@@Classic_DM watching your frost giant thing. I have been looking into solo dnd. I have the stuff to do it.
@@Classic_DM Here in Fl, there is convention for Old RPGers- they only play rpgs from the 70s and 80s. I'm the only gamer I know that likes this stuff. It's in the bowels of Orlando. I'd never find it.
@@DaftPhully Oh?? Hell let me know where it is. I'm in St Johns area.
I don't like the Forgotten Realms, too much baggage. I'd rather throw my players into poland if given a choice.
Forgottem Realms is lored to death thanks to hundreds of pulp novels in the 90s.
I think you are bringing a lot of stuff that takes the fun out of AD&D, by using a lot of new rules from 5e. 1e/2e are so much different than 5e, if you start bringing a lot of rules from 5e into the original AD&D, you are really taking away the joy of the older games. Just not a fan of the later editions. I started with 1e, and we brought some things in from 2e, but mostly kept the basis of 1e in one campaign and used mostly 2e in a second campaign. The uniqueness of 1e/2e is really, really destroyed by just one or two 5e rules. I hate to hear is someone is killing the old time game.
Also, I think it's strange that you talk about tactics and strategy near the end (running instead of fighting or, as we used to do... PARLEY!), but the first house rule is max hit points. We had max hp at 1st and 2nd level. After that you rolled and lived with what you got. That created MORE, not less, strategic decisions and made it that much more fun.
For initiative, we always rolled a d20.
Critical hit and flub were in our campaigns also.
Finally, we had a temple we could go to for raising the dead. The cost was staggering and often required the individual to be in DEEP debt and/or do something ridiculously difficult for the church IMMEDIATELY. It was like casting a wish spell. Anything could happen, and usually did. So it wasn't something we did often unless someone was VERY tied to their character or their character was a major plot motivator/mover. One time a player had to change sex (from a she to a he), another time a player had to change class and become a cleric of the God, and once a fighter was only allowed to use hammers as weapons (by being raised by a cleric of Thor). Lots of interesting stuff, lots of interactions with the Gods themselves, being given choices of life or whatever. Fun times.
I don't even play 5e.
I think changing the melee round to 6 sec (from 60 seconds) and adjusting the movement rate to match makes the moment-to-moment combat more engaging.
Everything else stays the same.