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  1. My son's 1st encounter with my OD&D group was pretty raucous! He's dressed in plate mail and helm, which he didn't take off, so the 'cheese grater' and 'do you need a straw to eat' jokes started and it just went on from there.

    The sheer joy & chaos of OD&D is really a different vibe than my other D&D games. It's 2.5 hours of shenanigans and hijinks combined with "holy crap what is that?!?"

    They did lure a rust monster *away* from the plated fighter so there's that...

    #TTRPG #ODnD #OldSchool

  2. It took 5 minutes to roll up my son's OD&D character for my Dungeon23 campaign (still going!) and another 5 min or so to get equipment sorted.

    He's mostly played 5th edition (with brief forays into my AD&D/1e campaign) and he was pretty surprised!

    #TTRPG #ODnD #OldSchool

  3. As a DM, sometimes I watch the encounters I set in motion with a bit of foreboding, like "this could go badly..."

    Watching 2 carrion crawlers almost take out a party with 4th level fighters and clerics... was a tense moment for everyone! Fortunately, the first level halfling fighter saved the day!

    My carrion crawlers are like facehuggers, but with 8 tentacles, a maw plus legs and a 9 ft long body.

    #TTRPG #ODnD #ClassicDnD

  4. "Tucker's Kobolds" from 1987 is about giving weak #dnd monsters (honestly) excessive tricks including traps. It's a meme now, picked up on YouTube.

    Looking through editions, there are zero references to kobolds using traps before it. #odnd just says they are weaker than goblins, basically the crappest humanoid. #adnd1e has them just fighting. #bxdnd says they "ambush". All before 1987. But #adnd2e (1989) has heavy reference to traps for them. TSR eating their own memes.

    media.wizards.com/2014/downloa

  5. "Tucker's Kobolds" from 1987 is about giving weak #dnd monsters (honestly) excessive tricks including traps. It's a meme now, picked up on YouTube.

    Looking through editions, there are zero references to kobolds using traps before it. #odnd just says they are weaker than goblins, basically the crappest humanoid. #adnd1e has them just fighting. #bxdnd says they "ambush". All before 1987. But #adnd2e (1989) has heavy reference to traps for them. TSR eating their own memes.

    media.wizards.com/2014/downloa

  6. "Tucker's Kobolds" from 1987 is about giving weak #dnd monsters (honestly) excessive tricks including traps. It's a meme now, picked up on YouTube.

    Looking through editions, there are zero references to kobolds using traps before it. #odnd just says they are weaker than goblins, basically the crappest humanoid. #adnd1e has them just fighting. #bxdnd says they "ambush". All before 1987. But #adnd2e (1989) has heavy reference to traps for them. TSR eating their own memes.

    media.wizards.com/2014/downloa

  7. "Tucker's Kobolds" from 1987 is about giving weak monsters (honestly) excessive tricks including traps. It's a meme now, picked up on YouTube.

    Looking through editions, there are zero references to kobolds using traps before it. just says they are weaker than goblins, basically the crappest humanoid. has them just fighting. says they "ambush". All before 1987. But (1989) has heavy reference to traps for them. TSR eating their own memes.

    media.wizards.com/2014/downloa

  8. "Tucker's Kobolds" from 1987 is about giving weak #dnd monsters (honestly) excessive tricks including traps. It's a meme now, picked up on YouTube.

    Looking through editions, there are zero references to kobolds using traps before it. #odnd just says they are weaker than goblins, basically the crappest humanoid. #adnd1e has them just fighting. #bxdnd says they "ambush". All before 1987. But #adnd2e (1989) has heavy reference to traps for them. TSR eating their own memes.

    media.wizards.com/2014/downloa

  9. I've been looking into more #ttrpg #odnd retroclones recently. I've been quite an #OSE fan but reading #whiteboxFMAG got me interested, and then I started going down the "differences between using some books but not others" rabbit hole.

    The thing that I found interesting, apart from the massive difference in monster power before and after Greyhawk, is how extremely similar OD&D with all books is to #ADnD. The latter has expanded detail and some extra rules but the structure is almost identical.

  10. The publisher of Fight On! magazine is reporting the passing of Tim Kask.

    #TTRPG #DnD #ODnD #TSR

  11. #PnPde , am kommenden Wochenende findet die #WinterCon des #Rubicon in #Osnabrück statt. Ich bin dort mit zwei Runden #ODnD und einer Runde #YggrasilBurns (basierend auf #MörkBorg ) am Start. Am Sonntag wären auch noch einige Slots für SLs frei. rubicon-osnabrueck.de/aktuelle #OSR

  12. #PnPde , am kommenden Wochenende findet die #WinterCon des #Rubicon in #Osnabrück statt. Ich bin dort mit zwei Runden #ODnD und einer Runde #YggrasilBurns (basierend auf #MörkBorg ) am Start. Am Sonntag wären auch noch einige Slots für SLs frei. rubicon-osnabrueck.de/aktuelle #OSR

  13. #PnPde , am kommenden Wochenende findet die #WinterCon des #Rubicon in #Osnabrück statt. Ich bin dort mit zwei Runden #ODnD und einer Runde #YggrasilBurns (basierend auf #MörkBorg ) am Start. Am Sonntag wären auch noch einige Slots für SLs frei. rubicon-osnabrueck.de/aktuelle #OSR

  14. #PnPde , am kommenden Wochenende findet die #WinterCon des #Rubicon in #Osnabrück statt. Ich bin dort mit zwei Runden #ODnD und einer Runde #YggrasilBurns (basierend auf #MörkBorg ) am Start. Am Sonntag wären auch noch einige Slots für SLs frei. rubicon-osnabrueck.de/aktuelle #OSR

  15. #PnPde , am kommenden Wochenende findet die #WinterCon des #Rubicon in #Osnabrück statt. Ich bin dort mit zwei Runden #ODnD und einer Runde #YggrasilBurns (basierend auf #MörkBorg ) am Start. Am Sonntag wären auch noch einige Slots für SLs frei. rubicon-osnabrueck.de/aktuelle #OSR

  16. Where do the non-chud #ttrpg old-schoolers go to chat these days? Is there a #discord channel or forum or something?

    #odnd #dnd #oldschool #1e #2e #0e #SwordsAndWizardryWhiteBox

  17. Where do the non-chud #ttrpg old-schoolers go to chat these days? Is there a #discord channel or forum or something?

    #odnd #dnd #oldschool #1e #2e #0e #SwordsAndWizardryWhiteBox

  18. Skerples has published a post about OD&D & AD&D treasure tables. I hadn't realised he was working on a sequel to the Monster Overhaul, titled, logically, "The Treasure Overhaul".

    coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2

    #odnd #adnd #dnd #osr #ttrpg

  19. The Radioactive Boogaloo booklet by Matthew Tapp, a free supplement for #BarrowsAndBorderlands is glued up! I'm digging the electric pink Dacron bowstring and the carpenter's glue (use what you have) is still flexible. I'll pick up some PVA (white) glue when I add cover pages and the cover. I'm not thinking hardcover, but maybe a sturdy cardstock with the printed cover graphics and book fabric?

    #TTRPG #ODND #bookbinding #diy

  20. So I did a thing. I wanted to take out some of the #Sexism in #ODND so went Alignment impacting instead of Gender divisive. Looked at the decision to take this path and tried to make the characters have strong #Alignment impacts from rolling their stats defining the characters choices. Some characters should not have certain stats as part of #Exploring and #defining the characters during random creation, in order to reinforce the universe and campaign tropes for the system. #RPG #RGPDdesign

  21. #AskMeAbout

    * Running a 14 year AD&D campaign w/multiple groups playing at same time

    * Ral Partha's Chaos Wars miniatures wargame

    * OD&D/Chainmail

    #ttrpg #adnd #1e #RalPartha #ChaosWars #miniatures #WarGame #odnd #0e #ChainMail

  22. #askfedi

    What are you opinions on the d20 dice itself. Do you find that it creates too large of a spread? Do you dislike how most games use the 1 and the 20 for critical failures and successes? Do you swap it out for 3d6 or something else?

    #3d6 #d20 #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #fallout #dnd35 #adnd #odnd #dice #dicegoblin #ttrpg #rpg #roleplaying #dicerolls