D&D first edition

[gabbe01]

Is off in less than 2 weeks to play d&d first edition but lost my rulebook and char sheet,and havent been able to find any old ones on the webb,just the new 3E,anyone might know where to get it?
really need them since its been years since I last played and cant remember anything. Or hold up the playing while I read up on it all again

[North Star]

It's very similar to 2nd Edition if you still have that. The main changes were in losing the Cavalier and the introduction of character kits.

NS.

Edit: Oh yes. The loss of the monk, assassin and barbarian too, but hey

[gabbe01]

No.I ever only got the first edition,ad now I cant find it,but then I gave all my tabletop games to my mom and brother to use when they got kid company.(Talisman and dragon castle rocks )
Guess I have to scavanger their storages since I called them and nada,and I REALLY need the info.

[North Star]

Go Talisman! I had all the boxed sets from the 2nd Edition (the man fighting the dragon on the castle steps), not the one with GW models

NS.

[Relenoir]

I used to play a LOT of 1st ed., so maybe I could help answer some questions. Sadly, I don't have the books anymore either.

[North Star]

I got rid of my (VERY battered) 1st Ed books about ten years ago when I was in my GW obsessional phase. I sold them secondhand and used the money to buy High Elves I don't even play with now. *sulks*

NS, feeling let down by himself.

[andyr]

Together with gamebooks, I am an avid collector of everything TSR pre-AD&D 2nd ed (that's 1988).

@ Gabbeh... I don't know if you are talking of the "basic" D&D game (Basic, Expert, Companion and Master books) or of the 1st edition of Advanced D&D (Player's Handbook, DMG, Monster Manual, etc).
In any case, if you're in a hurry you can try getting the Electronic Software Dowload (ESD) of most of those. Wizards of the Coast had an initiative to turn most long-OOP xD&D items (and other games, like Gamma World) into pdf files, which could be bought for quite a cheap price (last time I bought one was around USD 5). Now they don't send them directly. As of latest, the host webshop is rpgnow.com. If you just want the rules and are not looking for them for collector reasons, downloading the needed books would be the fastest and the cheapest. They are classic 80s black and white things, with few illustrations, so downloading and printing can be cheaper than looking around used bookstores in the net and having them shipped.
If meanwhile you need help, I have a complete set sitting in my bookshelf..

[zxc]

From about 1986 to 1990 I DM'd a 1st Edition AD&D Game which I set in a world mainly based on Magnamund. I couldn't afford any of the add-ons to the AD&D game like the world of Greyhawk, but I already had LW 1 through 5. As the magnakai series progressed, I incorporated many of the ideas from the world in to the AD&D setting.

I spent some time thinking about how to allow characters like Kai Lords in AD&D, In the end I had selected NPC humans from Summerlund allowed to be multi-classed Monk / Rangers. It actually worked quite well as the various not-quite magical abilities of Rangers (tracking, weapon proficiencies) and Monks (climbing, falling, hiding in shadows, being immune to mind affecting attacks) had a lot in common with the Kai disciplines.

I also took liberties with mixing the history of Magnamund and various bits of history from books like Dungeon masters guide. I decided that Vecna (the archlich from AD&D) and Vashna (original arch-lord) were two names for the same being.

Magnamumd worked well as an AD&D setting, with a bit of imagination and artistic licence. I had beautiful colour maps ready for the players that didn’t show the whole world at once and it had a rich history that meshed with my campaign ideas.

I still have all the 1st Edition books (mostly in poor condition) and a few modules up in a box in my parents loft somewhere. Would love to know if anyone else had similar ideas.

Cheers.

[Zipp]

Well, my history with D and D is short and sad. I'm a born role player, a natural tag along on any adventure, and even own dungeons and dragons sets. Yet, in all my days, I have never played a single game of D and D (with or without the "A"). At the University of Puget Sound I was finally invited to join a session that would meet weekly. And what do I do? I swtich schools. To U of O. Which I don't even like, not really.

I have played two role playing adventures in my entire life. One, a short lived Legends of the Five Rings, whoose DM got mad after my friend refused to have sex with the woman he saved, who was supposed to bear his bastard child. Not to mention I impregnated the entire village of every village we came to and was run out of each town by the entire town's population of husbands. Like I said, a natural born role player.

The second was a longer lived game which I don't remember the name of (oh wait wait wait... it was Aberant), by White Wolf, where you become superheroes. Except our team more accuratly depicted what would happen if people got super powers. Namely, the people who should under no circumstances have them, ended up getting them in abundance. We pillaged, took luxury trips to Japan, invented new sexual uses for food, and eviscerated anyone stupid enough to get in our way. Oh, and I think we stopped a bank robbery... once.

My character specialized in, um, not being able to die, and liked to jump down the throats of enemies to rup them apart from the inside. His first battle, he jumped twenty feet in the air to land, sword first, on some fire guy's neck, thus stopping any attempt the DM made for us to question the poor pyromaniac.

That game never really ended so much as the DM decided the world would be better without our, um, influence and set the world on a crash course with oblivion. Fortunately for the world, before it could complete it's own armagedon, I selflessly saved it by switching schools, thus breaking up the party. And now you know the real reason that I switched schools. Yes, that's right. To save the world.

But I'll never forget the things our characters used to do with waffles... ah, "leggo my eggo" will never be the same.

[gabbe01]

It's the basic one,why I need it is because I suddenly learned that 2 of my friends are into it and I used to play in like highschool and college. but had a hard time finding anyone to play with and gave it up,now that I wanna play again it's been more then 10 yeas and my memory is empty about it all
My friends have the books but they live hours away so I cant use their books and don't wanna ruin a few hours when I get there to make a char and reading up on what classes and races there is and bonuses and stuff so just wanted to save time,btw it's this friday I am going.
And it's nice to couch up in the sofa and read about heroic and not so heroic classes races and bad guys.
Anyway,gonan try that rpg site since just download pd and print is sufficient for me.

[gothmog]

zxc said:

I spent some time thinking about how to allow characters like Kai Lords in AD&D, In the end I had selected NPC humans from Summerlund allowed to be multi-classed Monk / Rangers. It actually worked quite well as the various not-quite magical abilities of Rangers (tracking, weapon proficiencies) and Monks (climbing, falling, hiding in shadows, being immune to mind affecting attacks) had a lot in common with the Kai disciplines.

I remember reading an interview with Joe Dever where he said that the Kai were psionic rangers of lawful good alignment. I haven't been able to find this interview (it's probably offline now) but it was published in Role Player Independent in the early 90s I think.

[North Star]

Nice. Jarrod M. Trant had a website with extensive 2nd Edition adaptations of the Kai Lords. Completely unofficial of course, but I really liked it.

NS.

Edit: I can't remember the URL, so don't ask! And what do people think of the TotS banner?

[Relenoir]

Not to mention I impregnated the entire village of every village we came to and was run out of each town by the entire town's population of husbands.

Hm. Well Zipp, it sounds like you were playing as Miroku from the Inuyasha anime.

[Peregrine]

North said:

Nice. Jarrod M. Trant had a website with extensive 2nd Edition adaptations of the Kai Lords. Completely unofficial of course, but I really liked it.

NS.

Edit: I can't remember the URL, so don't ask! And what do people think of the TotS banner?

Google is my ally, and a powerful ally it is.

www.pobursky.com/ADD.htm

[North Star]

Woot! Thanks a bunch

NS.