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Post by Finarvyn on Jan 24, 2014 12:49:27 GMT -6
I've seen the date January 25, 1974 quoted as the first day that OD&D officially went on sale, which means that tomorrow would be the 40th Anniversary of the game. (Yes, I know that Michael has played longer than that, but he's the exception and not the rule.)
The question is: are you doing anything to celebrate 40 years of OD&D, and if so what are you doing?
I was thinking of running some folks through the FFC version of Castle Blackmoor. Anyone else have a plan?
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Post by bestialwarlust on Jan 24, 2014 13:07:38 GMT -6
Well since that's my normal game day. I'll be running my Delving Deeper game.
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Post by kenmeister on Jan 24, 2014 13:15:12 GMT -6
I'll be drawing a megadungeon map for the first time in over 20 years.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 24, 2014 14:16:37 GMT -6
I suspect that I will be working on drafts for some of my posts for the D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge.
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Post by skars on Jan 24, 2014 17:38:06 GMT -6
I'll be playing in Tim Callahan's AS&SH game like most Sundays  But, before that the kids and I will dive further into the sinister secret of saltmarsh |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2014 17:54:47 GMT -6
Assuming that the weather here in Columbus does not prevent my players from showing up, I will be starting a new OD&D campaign that I have tweaked all over the place. Keeping my tentacles crossed!  Update: Game took place, had five players present! - some details in the new campaign thread. New OD&D Campaign beginning |
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Post by doc on Jan 24, 2014 18:52:54 GMT -6
I'm going to be running a scenario set in the game world I created back when I first started DMing at age 12. I was actually using BX at the time, but it's easily converted to OE. As a bonus, I even have the orignal character sheets from the characters both alive and deceased from back then, so my players will get to play characters that are almost thirty years old.
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Post by allensh on Jan 25, 2014 8:55:12 GMT -6
The Frozen Orc, our new game store here in Mt. Pleasant Michigan (1005 Corporate Drive, if you're in the area) is hosting a D&D Anniversary Game today (25th). The owner is using OD&D + Greyhawk to run a dungeon he made back in the Seventies There's been a lot of snow but it does look like the game will be going on Allen |
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Post by Todd on Jan 25, 2014 13:27:52 GMT -6
I'll come up with something. |
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Post by Lord Kilgore on Jan 25, 2014 17:11:37 GMT -6
Schedule doesn't allow anything special. Wish it did. My daughter just asked me today about playing. Maybe tomorrow.
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Post by Finarvyn on Jan 25, 2014 18:16:50 GMT -6
Schedule doesn't allow anything special. Wish it did. My daughter just asked me today about playing. Maybe tomorrow. Jon Peterson thinks that D&D's anniversary should be a certain Sunday in January, which this year would be tomorrow. You're just ahead of the rest of us.  |
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Post by jakdethe on Jan 25, 2014 18:19:36 GMT -6
Schedule doesn't allow anything special. Wish it did. My daughter just asked me today about playing. Maybe tomorrow. I hope I have a daughter one day that plays D&D with my wife and I. |
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Post by tetramorph on Jan 25, 2014 18:23:35 GMT -6
My local "meet up" group is having a "Birthday Party" at a local gaming tavern.
One of our good old DMs will be running a strict LBB dungeon crawl using some dungeons that won a (okay, 1977) JG contest.
We had to beg them to let us bring a cake!
I hope we don't violate any IP laws!
I'll try to remember to post pictures of the cake later.
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Post by Lord Kilgore on Jan 25, 2014 20:05:30 GMT -6
I hope I have a daughter one day that plays D&D with my wife and I. We play a little D&D and a little Traveller when Dad isn't too busy. She's 16 and has played a bit since she was about 10 or 11. Usually very story-oriented stuff, because that's what she likes. It's very special and Dad needs to make more time because the window of opportunity is closing rapidly. |
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Post by jakdethe on Jan 25, 2014 21:52:53 GMT -6
I hope I have a daughter one day that plays D&D with my wife and I. We play a little D&D and a little Traveller when Dad isn't too busy. She's 16 and has played a bit since she was about 10 or 11. Usually very story-oriented stuff, because that's what she likes. It's very special and Dad needs to make more time because the window of opportunity is closing rapidly. As someone who was introduced to the hobby by his father, I can only say I wish I'd had more time to game with my old man before he moved. It's really awesome you guys get to share that, even if it is only once in a while. |
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Post by Finarvyn on Jan 26, 2014 3:36:31 GMT -6
Schedule doesn't allow anything special. Wish it did. My daughter just asked me today about playing. Maybe tomorrow. I hope I have a daughter one day that plays D&D with my wife and I. The real secret is to plan ahead and marry a gamer girl. Most of my high school gamer friends who married non-gamers since have dropped out of the hobby, but I married a girl who plays D&D and my gaming life is still strong. My eldest played some D&D in the 1990's. My younger two helped me playtest C&C around a decade ago. Now I run games for a couple of friends and their two boys. I figure someone has to get the next generation exposed to something other than video games. |
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Post by krusader74 on Jan 26, 2014 5:25:07 GMT -6
The question is: are you doing anything to celebrate 40 years of OD&D, and if so what are you doing? Reading and contributing to odd74, of course!  Happy birthday D&D!!! I'd sing the " Happy Birthday" song, but I don't want to pay $1,500 to secure the rights from Warner/Chappell Music.  |
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Post by Morandir on Jan 26, 2014 10:46:36 GMT -6
My weekly game is tonight; can't think of a better way to celebrate than to play!
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Post by Lord Kilgore on Jan 26, 2014 11:18:10 GMT -6
Okay, even though it's not OD&D here's what I did: I "got legal" by purchasing the official PDFs of the 1981 Basic and Expert rulebooks. They weren't available before all the PDFs were pulled, and I've been using less-than-official PDFs for years. I own several set of the actual books, but it's nice to have electronic versions. Anyway, now the B/X books are available officially and I decided today was a good day to buy them. (FWIW, the PDFs look to be pretty clean and the OCR is good.)
The kids had some evening events snowed out so we might get a game session in yet...
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Post by benoist on Jan 26, 2014 12:32:41 GMT -6
Yep! I am working at the manuscript of a module preview for Gary Con, and reminiscing at the same time. Seemed fitting, looking both at the past, and looking forward to the future. Reposting this from facebook: "It is likely that today is the anniversary of the reveal of the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game in late January of 1974, the first Sunday when game designer Ernest Gary Gygax invited people to come to his house and play his and Dave Arneson's brand new game. I always was curious and inquisitive as a child growing up between Normandy and the French Ardennes. My parents were very good to me, instilling in me a critical mind, spirit, a will to go out and be myself, answering my questions about all things, or pointing me in the right direction to find them out on my own. It'd be hard for me to say that the Dungeons & Dragons game taught me all those things. But surrounded as I was with the castles of Robert the Devil and Richard the Lionheart, inspired as I was by fantasy as well as the world around me, I think that my discovery of the game on that fateful week-end of November 1988 in Vendresse, France, where my cousin Carlos Sacré ran us through his version of the Village of Hommlet, had the effect of a lightning bolt on me, bringing all these elements into a whole that would define how I would shape both my imagination and personality from then on. I owe it in no small part to Dungeons & Dragons to know what words like "eldritch" or "dweomer" or indeed "marmoreal" actually mean. Heck, I probably wouldn't speak English every day if it wasn't for deciphering the books on my own with an Harrap's dictionary as a young lad. I might not have plugged myself into Ancient History on the internet, might not have met Nerissa Montie at all. I might not have come to live here in Canada, nor met so many wonderful friends and played with them over the years. I wouldn't be where I am today, creating new content for those who love the game as I do, enjoying the partnership and friendship of one Ernest Gary Gygax Jr. Today, I am celebrating, remembering the many games, the many laughs, the dice rolling, the role playing, as I work my way through our latest manuscript. This is a preview of what is to come, intended as an exclusive for those who attend the Gary Con Gaming Convention a few weeks from now, using some of the materials I once came up with in my advice to build the mega-dungeon, but retooled to work in concert with The Hobby Shop Dungeon and campaign, and expended upon in concert with my friend and writing partner. This is a fitting way to celebrate I think, and I can't help thinking about Gary as I do so, typing away at his machine, as Ernie described to me more than once, giving birth to a framework that would soon allow millions to have fun and explore the realms of their own imaginations. So, here's to you, Dungeons & Dragons. Happy birthday, old friend. To the many years of fun games that are now past, and to the future, many bright years yet to come."  |
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Post by thegreyelf on Jan 26, 2014 12:59:35 GMT -6
Didn't do anything for the actual day, but in a couple months I'll be picking up my OD&D Conan game, probably for the rest of the year.
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Post by idrahil on Jan 26, 2014 15:15:42 GMT -6
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Post by vengersatanis on Jan 26, 2014 15:32:56 GMT -6
Didn't realize 1/25 had so much significance. As it happens, we played S&W complete! Though, I'm not real happy with their monk and druid. Too overpowered in certain areas. Might go back to oD&D, a hack of DCC, or AS&SH.
From my FB wall: "Last night's D&Desque game recap: character sheets were lost, a couple crystals were collected, magic swords provided some amusing banter, a pylon was found in an underground lost city / dungeon, weird ass monsters were fought, and the party thief got knocked unconscious 2 or 3 times. It was fun."
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Post by krusader74 on Jan 26, 2014 20:32:45 GMT -6
There is a discussion of that Yahoo! Games article over at Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7126925I left a comment over there giving props to this site and our contributors, recommending anybody interested in OD&D come visit us. (I post on HN using the handle "ergoproxy".) Today is a good day to proselytize to others about our hobby! |
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Post by machpants on Jan 26, 2014 22:19:02 GMT -6
I have spent the weekend reading my shiny new OD&D box set from WotC Still going too |
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Post by Zenopus on Feb 7, 2014 17:53:52 GMT -6
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Post by scalydemon on Feb 7, 2014 22:38:07 GMT -6
Running a LL game at the FLGS (Garys Games in Seattle) Sunday for a table of 6 or 7. The campaign is set in Hyperborea, but I am thinking of running Many Gates of the Gann - plugging it into a back story.
Happy birthday D&D!
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But, before that the kids and I will dive further into the sinister secret of saltmarsh 
Happy birthday D&D!!! 
