Mythlands: The Setting to End All Settings

Been thinking of Dragonlance again lately.

I've had Operation Unfathomable [OU] on the shelf for a number of years.

Welcome to the Threa-Elddim, the most quintessential fantasy kingdom ever made.

OSR Stalwart James Spahn kickstarted White Box: Cyclopedia this summer and raised a whopping 50k.

tl;dr A giant-sized core ruleset that nonetheless offers the best take on an Advanced version of D&D you are likely to find.

Somewhere on reddit recently, I saw someone casually mention the different types of fantasy implied by The Hobbit vs Lord of the Rings.

There was a time when Old School gamers simply referred to those gamers who played OD&D, B/X and AD&D 1e back in the day and never stopped doing it.

Somewhere in the Dragon Magazine issues I've been perusing lately, Moldvay comments that the part of the Basic set he is most proud of is B60 "Dungeon Mastering as a Fine Art", where he gets to impart his own experiences as a DM to newbie DMs.

I started doing some 1e comparisons when I wrote the previous entry, but it quickly grew out of control and I decided to section it off, so that 2e classes also get to be compared on their own merits.

The AD&D appraisal show is back on the road.

Besides the semi-immortality of PCs, that is.

A frequent objection given against my rants against certain post-TSR trends in D&D is that my rants do not target the system per se, but rather table behaviour.

Every once in a blue moon, I have the urge to doomscroll The Vaults of Pandius.

One simple houserule I use during character creation is to simply treat any 1 rolled as a 2.

I've been running our group through the sandbox presented in "The Vanilla Adventure" using classic D&D with some houserules, strict 3d6 in order, no re-arranging or re-rolls.

Smaller numbers are better.

I've analysed and critiqued the concept of Hit Points in the past.

I know, I know.

There are three armor types in classic D&D (B/X, BECMI, Cyclopedia).

We've all read S.

As an adult, my favorite class is the regular fighter, though I did enjoy playing a paladin straight for a campaign's worth.

Mmmm, races from the good old days, Before tieflings, drow and dragonborn became core options in the World of Warcraft menagerie that is modern D&D.

There will be interludes between the AD&D Appraisal series, to keep my own writing motivation going.

It's time.