Via a google+ post by Peter Fröhlich , I just came across the marvellous looking Book of Miscellaneous Spells . I've only had a quick ...

Amazon just kindly informed me of the release of the Premium D&D 3.5 Player's Handbook . First thing I noticed: that's quite c...

It's an old conundrum of AD&D: the balance of humans vs demi-humans. If you look at a mixture of 1st level characters of various rac...

After a year or more (I can't remember how long exactly) of only playing versions of old-school D&D, I played in a Savage Worlds g...

Inspired by Chris' post over at the Vaults of Nagoh about the idea of running a campaign using the AD&D Fiend Folia as the sole s...

I never played this back in the day, or even looked at the books, but I always thought it sounded kinda cool. I think it sounds even coole...

Just reading Daddy Rolled a 1's post about AD&D 2nd edition , where he mentions how one thing he really liked about that edition was...

Play report after our first session of AD&D 1st edition. Written from the point of view of my character Weebrian Jig . The personal di...

I got the illusionist I was dreaming of! (Not that hard with Method I -- 4d6 drop lowest arrange to taste...) I decided to go for a human,...

I'm very excited, as a friend here in Berlin is starting up an AD&D (1st edition) campaign! We're starting tomorrow evening wi...

Though it's not a class I've ever seen used in practice, I've always been smitten with the idea of the wild mage -- a magic-user...

I just noticed this morning, as I went to look up a spell description in the Labyrinth Lord Advanced Edition Companion, how I love reading t...

As readers of this blog have no doubt noticed by now, I like lots of spells with my D&D :) One of my favourite supplemental books for D...

I've been thinking recently about a slightly different way of handling deities in a campaign, moving a step away from the prototypical ...

I found myself, some days ago, browsing the AD&D 1st edition Unearthed Arcana, and re-read the description of the thief-acrobat split cl...

Due to: 1. Having a distinct lack of t-shirts in a passable condition at the moment. 2. My love of old-school RPGs, and a certain amount of ...

After waking up this morning, I started thinking about the planes of hell. Such is the life of a Dungeon Master ;) In contrast to the tradit...

I've seen a few people discussing this topic, on various blogs and forums: the idea of weapon damage in D&D being determined not by ...

So I've been browsing through the AD&D DMG, and I must say I'm really impressed with it so far. "1e" has the reputatio...

Look what I just received in the post! I've just had a flick through it, to see what's in there (I've not looked at the 1st edit...