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I need some interesting magic items to give my group. I must admit, Nimble’s sample magic items are very few and not the best.
I want to give them some useful utility items that won’t break the game but will expand their options.
#TTRPG #GMPrep #Nimble #NimbleRPG #DND #ADND #NSR #OSR #MagicItems #OutlawsOfTheNorth
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Long before the Rat catchers and the Monster of the Month Patreon, a boys imagination was captured by Jason and the Argonauts, and an unlucky encounter with a Minotaur provides time to read the DND1E rules. Part two of 'When Dice Were Made of Flint'. #GraemeDavis #RPG #TTRPG #gaming #History #dnd #adnd #d&d #not5e
https://www.tabletopsentinel.com/columns/when-dice-were-made-of-flint/when-dice-were-made-of-flint-2?utm_source=mastodon -
CW: Outlaws of the North, Classic D&D Module
I’m planning on running B5 Horror on the Hill for my nimble group. I’m changing it up a bit, and running it in Nimble. Anyone revisit this old module? Stuff they particularly liked or had to absolutely change?
I’m removing the slide to the deeper dungeon, I’ll make another entrance they can find later.
#TTRPG #DND #BX #OSR #NSR #HorrorOnTheHill #ADND #B5 #OutlawsOfTheNorth
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Officially, D&D did not adopt individual initiative until 3rd edition. But I feel like it was a very common house rule at the time. Certainly every other rpg I played in the 80s did it (Rolemaster, Palladium Fantasy, Warhammer FRP, Talislanta).
Was individual initiative a common house rule in AD&D?
In the 80s I played:
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Today after a long discussion on the NSR discord we came to the conclusion that there are indeed two different THAC0s.
AD&D 1e people used THAC0 as an informal shorthand for the attack matrix chart, but you had to remember the six repeated 20s for particularly low ACs. But it is not defined in the AD&D rules.
AD&D 2e officially adds THAC0 to the rules, eliminating the repeating 20s, but says a nat 20 always hits.
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I had no interest in old #DnD versions before encountering the #OSR which settled on #BX as a base. (This is the version of Basic D&D that came before the famous "red box" BECMI one that was the first one I saw IRL.)
This led me on a journey to explore other versions - #HolmesBasicDnD, the #3LBB books, the supplements to those, retroclones like #SwordsAndWizardry and #WhiteBoxFMAG, and now I think I've done my exploration and ended up back where I started, with B/X. The difference being that I can explain _why_ now.
(Short version: it's more coherent and finished than Holmes and earlier, yet still without the complications and level/power inflation of #BECMI or #ADnD.)
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A conversation about AD&D, and how the character to-hit matrices were in the DMG, which was “Dungeon Master Only!” material.
I know by the 1986 character sheet product it included a spot for THAC0. I’m curious what the early AD&D sheets looked like.
I think the 80s version of the PHB had a record sheet, but I’m uncertain.
Anyone know where I can find a scan of these sheets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Character_Folder_%26_Adventure_Records
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I didn't think I'd ever go to #GameholeCon. (Nothing pissed me off; just didn't seem worth the hassle.) But Allen Hammack is running my favorite #1e adventure (C2) and doing so in 1e. Note: He's its author. Really tempting. Still seems like a huge hassle just for a 4-hour table. 😉 #DnD #RPG #TTRPG #ADnD
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Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson walks into a comic book shop on the TV series “Diff’rent Strokes.” And look what just happens to be by the door: A display of Advanced D&D core rule books!
From the episode “The Big Heist,” which aired Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, 1981, this is one of the earliest — if not the first — appearances of D&D in film and TV in America, predating its appearance in “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” (June 1982) by 7 months.
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The #ADnD game fell through tonight due to two missing players, so we played Wrath of #Ashardalon tonight instead for the first time in over a decade for all four of us. We lost, but it was fun.
I wound up playing the solo encounter this morning and lost miserably with the Wizard. I changed to the Paladin and smoked it.
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Does anyone use the punching & wrestling rules as written (for #ADnD or 2nd ed)? I can’t say I ever have.
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Fun Fact: In the 1970s and 80s, TSR published the maps for their D&D adventures in blue to prevent piracy. This specific color of blue wouldn’t copy on analog optical photocopy machines. Today, D&D maps in “non-photo blue” are easily reproduced with scanners or digital copiers. New adventure maps in this blue are now only done for aesthetic purposes and nostalgia’s sake. #ttrpg #ttrpgs #dnd #adnd #bxdnd #tsr #tsrhobbies #tsrinc #1980s
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The Witches of Appendix N: Andre Norton
I am now heading into another important entry to the Appendix N. Andre Norton is one of only three women Gygax mentions. We are also getting one of the few books where witches are the key figures.
#AppendixN #adnd
https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/05/the-witches-of-appendix-n-andre-norton.html -
I just learned that D&D 5e has a monster named "pit fiend" that I never knew about in my 1e bubble.
My pit fiend is based off an old monster minis set produced by Grenadier back in the 1980s under a separate label. Their Fantasy Monsters set had a "One Eyed Pit Monster".
In my Etinerra campaign, a pit fiend is a homebrew monster of Chaos.
Here's a link about that old boxed set that has several awesome figures!
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Tonight's AD&D game was some serious business. A battle was fought at a Chaos Anchor, featuring a necromancer, a pit fiend and a wraith.
For only the second time in my various games in this 16 year campaign did a player get level drained - they failed their save vs death and went from a Druid 4 to a Druid 2.
The party ended up killing the necromancer but fleeing the field of battle - the hero fighter with the only magic weapon was almost dead!
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Well, call me crazy if you want to, but trying to finally get myself into #Harnmaster (as, into the rules as opposed to the setting) I feel like it's really not as complex as people make it out to be. Sure, it's crunchy, and very simulationist, but if I compare it to, say... #Shadowrun, #DSA, or even just #ADnD it feels like a walk in the park.
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Pondering "at will" abilities for monsters in 1st ed. AD&D:
When it says, "usable at will, one per round," what exactly does that mean? I have yet to find and explicit description for it.
My guess: there is no casting, so it can't be interrupted and no components are required.
My questions:
-- Can they still be used while magically held or paralyzed, like psionic abilities?
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Hoxe en día todavía atopo estes vellos anuncios da edición en castelán da revista dragón verdaderamente inspiradores.
A día de hoy todavía encuentro estos viejos anuncios de la edición en castellano de la revista dragón verdaderamente inspiradores.
Nowadays this old spanish edition magazine ads still looks really inspiring.
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Looking for players!
What: AD&D/1e - houseruled to fit my campaign world.
When: Every other Sunday evening on Discord, 7:00pm to 9:30pm (CDT UTC -5). This Sunday is our next game
Who: Anyone who'd like to play a play/fun/explore type of campaign. It's in an established world, in an area where much remains undiscovered!
How: I've been running this world for 17 years. This online campaign for about 7. Plenty of space for new PCs!
Contact me please for details! Please boost!
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So, turns out it's a bunch of text-only versions of pretty much every 2e sourcebook, a bunch of netbooks/homebrew stuff, some barebones character generators and a proto-dice roller app.
It's got all the earmarks of a disc that my old gaming buddy Mark would've burned for me. Whaddup Mark?
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This Old Dragon: Issue #85
This issue of Dragon is quite memorable to me. It was the very first issue I ever bought. Sure, I had read Dragon lots before this, but this one was the first.
#dragonmagazine #1980s #cleric #ADnD
https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/04/this-old-dragon-issue-85.html