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Post by jahydin on Mar 12, 2023 18:41:00 GMT -6
Hello odd74! User Name is pronounced "Jaden", I just got sick of my name being taken so I kept adding letters.  I've been playing RPGs since I was able to read thanks to having older friends on the block. Conservative family, so no D&D, had to start with Traveler, GURPS, and Rifts. Traveler was a bit over my head, but Rifts and GURPS I could grok, so played quite a lot of that growing up. Once out of high school, 3E came out and I ate it up. Have lots of fond memories of entire weekends spent in dungeons with my college friends. Well, I said no D&D, but actually my brother and I found a way to play with the help of our local library. The only catch was the various books were from different editions, so we had: B/X players guide, AD&D GM Guide, and Fiend Folio; so had to improvise a little since all my friends were deep into 2E at the time. For adventures, I got copies of my neighbors SSI Gold Box manuals and used those for inspiration for my first few adventures. I think that's what planted the seed of what's "real D&D" to me. Although I've played every edition, I've always had a soft spot for the older game's aesthetics. Although I played newer editions, I was always collecting every "clone" that come out: HackMaster, Labyrinth Lord, OSRIC, etc. Recently, thanks to the lockdown, I got spare time to deep dive into the older rules via IronFalcon and the original PDFs WotC began selling. I'm really looking forward to jumping in and reading all the discussions to be had about this very special game. |
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Post by rhialto on Mar 27, 2023 3:48:35 GMT -6
Hello odd74 forum!
My reversal of the Charm of Forlorn Encystment apparently worked, and so here I am...
Started with D&D in 1978 in high school with Holmes, then on to AD&D 1e when we could, then many other games (RuneQuest, DragonQuest, Traveller through HS, then too many to count over the intervening years). Sadly, most of my original books are long gone, except for a DragonQuest 2e hardback). I'm mostly an OSR footman these days, running (forever Ref) either Classic Traveller or Hyperborea 3e (both with house rules from decades of perceived wisdom) for our group, which is mostly friends from HS.
My main interests in OD&D start with Chainmail, since I'm still mostly a wargamer: played tons of ancients & medieval miniatures games a couple of decades ago, less nowadays, but still occasionally. Over the last year or so I've been reading OD&D or one of it's newer clones/sorcerous hybrids, and thought about trying something like Tony Bath's Hyborian Campaign, using OD&D/Chainmail, or Spellcraft & Swordplay and one of the Chainmail derivatives.
Cheers!
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Post by tombowings on Mar 27, 2023 5:27:22 GMT -6
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Post by Vile Traveller on Mar 27, 2023 6:56:01 GMT -6
If any of you new folks are interesting... I dunno, I wouldn't like to make that judgement!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2023 20:02:05 GMT -6
Hi, all. I'm not seeing a board-specific "Help" forum, and I was wondering if unsubscribing from threads is possible? I can see the ones I've posted in when clicking on "Participated," and I'd like to keep that list of threads I'm active in.
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Post by tombowings on Mar 30, 2023 5:49:25 GMT -6
As long as you don't continue to participate in a thread, the software will unsubscribe you from it after some time.
As far as manually unsubscribing, I'm not sure. I've never tried. The community here is not large enough to be a concern. I've never experienced being inundated with notifications here.
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Post by rredmond on Mar 30, 2023 8:03:41 GMT -6
Click on Participated (which is in the top right of my screen):  Then tick the box next to the thread and press the Actions button, if it has Mark as New as the choice, then choose it:  If it has Mark as Read as the option (or after you choose Mark as New) then you can choose Mark as Read, and Forever:  This should unsubscribe you from that thread I think it still hangs on your list, but that only keeps 30 or so threads, so eventually it just goes away there too. PS: Please let me know if you can't see those images, I think I did it correctly! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2023 8:29:44 GMT -6
PS: Please let me know if you can't see those images, I think I did it correctly! Much appreciated. |
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Post by tdenmark on Apr 1, 2023 15:24:50 GMT -6
This should unsubscribe you from that thread I think it still hangs on your list, but that only keeps 30 or so threads, so eventually it just goes away there too. Interesting that you would use my D&D Movie thread as an example of how to unsubscribe permanently. |
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Post by rredmond on Apr 1, 2023 16:35:56 GMT -6
As the email I got ten minutes ago will show, I never actually unsubscribed. My oldest saw it yesterday and said she loved it and that I have to see it. It just had the honor of being at the top of the list  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2023 20:40:50 GMT -6
Hello! I'm Titus, from North Carolina, but sadly I haven't been able to play in anything in years because of a combination of other obligations. Previous I was in Savannah and had given up on playing any RPGs as the area was completely dominated by 5E. It was all I could do to convince people to try out one-shots of LADY BLACKBIRD or INTO THE ODD.
Still, I love reading RPG books and trying to figure out the decisions behind the design and how those decisions ripple across the gameplay so I joined the forums to see what insights you guys have on the OD&D as I started (and primarily play/run) BX.
I look forward to the discussions on here!
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Post by ramblingcleric on Apr 14, 2023 19:05:46 GMT -6
Hello odd74 folks,
I first started roleplaying in 1980 when my friend's father bought him Moldvay's Basic D&D boxed set. We played that version so much that when the Expert boxed set was released my Aunt bought me a copy for my birthday. When we were eventually exposed to AD&D we had no real understanding of the differences. We just pulled things we liked from the AD&D books to use in our games. I was in high school when 2nd Edition was released, and my friends and I play that version almost exclusively for years, although we mixed it up with some Stormbringer and DC Heroes. For a time in the 90s I was playing a lot different games. I remember playing mostly Champions because it was a favorite of the group I was hanging out with at the time. I had a break from roleplaying while I was in the military, but I soon got back into it when I got out and went to college. During early-to-mid 2000s, I tried a lot of Indie games. I eventually came back to D&D when I decided to run a B/X game for some old friends that had gathered for a weekend. It was a blast, and I was hooked again. After about a year, I started looking into and playing OD&D in effort to learn more about the early history of the game. Besides the occasional miniatures skirmish game, I've been playing OD&D or B/X pretty consistently since around 2008.
As for other aspects of my life, I'm married and have two children. They're awesome and supportive of my hobbies. Professionally, I've done a few different things and lived in a lot of different places. I've lived in Japan, Cambodia, and various states in the US. My favorite place ever was living in Seattle. After the military, I went back to school and eventually earned my doctorate in early Indian and Southeast Asian Buddhism. I spent a few years in academia before deciding on another calling. Currently, I'm a professional hospital chaplain and chaplain educator. It fills my cup without bleeding too much into my personal life like academia did. That's me in a nutshell.
I'm looking forward to getting to know you all.
Peace.
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Post by rayotus on Apr 27, 2023 11:23:05 GMT -6
Born in east central Indiana (between Muncie and Richmond). I moved to San Diego and have lived there ever since. I have a BFA in Drawing, MA in English Lit, and PhD in Rhetoric. So naturally I run a software company. I started playing RPGs in 77 at age 10. I started war-games a year or two before that (or tried, I had an older brother and we played Luftwaffe, Kingmaker, and others). I was born into a gaming family; board and card games are part of my earliest memories. My great-grandma used to watch me and we would play Dominoes (with math, not just Mexican Train or some such) and Twixt. She died when I was 5, so I was gaming before I went to school or could read! I started with Holmes Blue Box and then AD&D. Around that same time I was heavily into Metagaming pocket games too - Ogre, Melee/Wizard/Death Test, Chitin, etc. My favorite RPGs currently are BX (OSE), Delving Deeper, Troika, and Into the Odd. I am an avid reader. (Maybe because the aforementioned matron read fairy tales to me.) Follow me on Goodreads if you like (link below). Among my favorite books are Lord of the Rings, Broken Sword, Knight of Swords, Elric of Melnibone, The Pastel City, Forever War, Starship Troopers, War of the Worlds, Wizard of Earthsea, Zothique, Dying Earth, Roadside Picnic, Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Dune, Kim, Martian Chronicles, Two Sought Adventure (aka Swords Against Death), Chronicles of Amber (first 5). All my links are at www.plundergrounds.com |
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Post by rredmond on Apr 27, 2023 11:52:35 GMT -6
...Lord of the Rings ... War of the Worlds ... Wizard of Earthsea ... Roadside Picnic, ... Two Sought Adventure (aka Swords Against Death), Chronicles of Amber... These are all on my annual-ish, reread list. Roadside Picnic being so nicely different. Welcome good sir, glad to have you aboard! |
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Post by blindaudelay on Jun 6, 2023 17:39:49 GMT -6
I realized that I never introduced myself, even after joining these boards (mostly to lurk) a bit ago.
Hello there. Began playing TTRPGs in early high school with 4e D&D, just to giver you a sense for my age and rapidly-fleeting youth. Moved on to some other games (5e, LotFP, CoC) as the years went on. I took a long hiatus from the hobby for graduate school, but have recently returned. I've grown to love the comparative simplicity of older-school games, and Delving Deeper and Blueholme are my current obsessions.
I look forward to continuing to read, and to occasionally post. Happy gaming!
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Post by seanfsmith on Jun 7, 2023 8:15:52 GMT -6
Evening all ─ I'm Sean F. Smith: magician, games designer, writer, plus menace.
I've been playing a chunk of OSR titles for the past half dozen years, but I've been on a big odnd kick since the global save vs. disease. Currently playing in Andrew Walter's odnd megadungeon game and soon to run Operation Unfathomable with FMAG.
I tend towards spit-and-gristle settings, as is my Br*tish wont. The last module I wrote was Wyrd-line of Thuland-stock for Dragon Warriors which is basically Beowulf * Brisingamen.
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Post by oldskolgmr on Jun 17, 2023 9:25:34 GMT -6
Welcome to our new members, I hope you find some interesting material for thought. This is also a good place for feedback on ideas, if you're polite and open to criticism (please try not to take anything personally, it's all about fun). Oldskolgmr |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2023 16:47:25 GMT -6
Howdy folks! Thanks for the add. I’m an SFF writer currently settled in the SoCal area and working on a big ol’ Bronze Age mythic megadungeon depthcrawl.
I’ve been playing RPGs since my sibs and I made up our own childhood games to get around our family’s Satanic D&D ban. Got into D&D proper through 3e in college before eventually finding my way to S&W and the OSR. More recently I’ve come to love OD&D via FMAG and the LBBs themselves.
Looking forward to chatting about the original game with y’all.
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Post by hamurai on Jul 9, 2023 1:16:12 GMT -6
Welcome, newcomers!
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Post by rainflower on Jul 17, 2023 15:14:28 GMT -6
Hi, I'm in St. Paul, MN. I was introduced to D&D with 2nd edition in the 90s by my brother. I was excited for 3rd edition - I got it when the first bunch came out and the PHB was 20 bucks but found it unwieldy for actual play. I was disappointed with skills and feats. I tried to buy into 5e but I just found it tiring as a DM and a bit generic. Several years ago my brother introduced me to the '74 white box, and during that time I have been exploring the OSR and retroclones, and spent a lot of time here as a lurker before it was locked down (which I understand). I've become familiar with all versions of D&D, even 4th a bit. Anyway, I love the older games, especially the art and the different ways of doing things, and not being so rules literal. I plan on being a DM for a new game group I found, I want to run an OD&D game I look forward to reading posts here and interacting with everyone. It's fun to learn new ways of doing things |
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Post by tetramorph on Jul 17, 2023 16:19:04 GMT -6
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Post by rredmond on Jul 18, 2023 6:40:53 GMT -6
Yes welcome rainflower! Good intro to the game and forums! Be well.
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Post by Finarvyn on Jul 18, 2023 8:21:38 GMT -6
Isn't St Paul in the area where Arneson and the original Blackmoor players lived? (The "Twin Cities" gamers.) You might be able to track down some of the old timers, maybe game with them? |
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Post by blindaudelay on Jul 18, 2023 17:50:46 GMT -6
Welcome, rainflower! Love the mini you posted over on 0e Den earlier. |
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Post by rainflower on Jul 19, 2023 11:42:44 GMT -6
Isn't St Paul in the area where Arneson and the original Blackmoor players lived? (The "Twin Cities" gamers.) You might be able to track down some of the old timers, maybe game with them? Yes! In fact I'm part of a gaming group at a local game store that is sponsored by Jeff, I believe he was one of Dave's first players and made the anti paladin. He has dice that Gary gave him. He talks about gaming back then, I want to try and meet with him outside the group to learn more. |
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Post by rainflower on Jul 19, 2023 18:24:42 GMT -6
Welcome, rainflower ! Love the mini you posted over on 0e Den earlier. Aw thanks! |
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Post by joenuttall on Aug 15, 2023 16:55:41 GMT -6
Hi everyone, glad to be here. I started roleplaying back in 81 when my brother got a copy of T&T for Christmas. We played about 2 games of T&T before we switched to Basic D&D (Moldvay) then Expert then AD&D. Switched to MERP/Rolemaster in the mid 80s and then had a 15 year hiatus mid 90s to late 2000s when I started up again DMing for my family with the B/X rules. Since then I snagged a copy of the OD&D set and we now generally play a mishmash of OD&D, B/X and AD&D. We also play my home-brew system Explore. A couple of years ago I started investigating the history of early D&D scenarios - initially trying to see what modules predated Keep on the Borderlands and how they had influenced it - and ended up getting sucked deeper and deeper into the D&D scenarios of the 1970s. I had to put the research up on the web to justify the effort I'd put into it, which just made the job bigger! In the end I published an illustrated anotated list of (almost) all of the ~200 scenarios published for D&D before the end of 1979. It includes everything from introductory dungeons, to dungeon maps in adverts, to products to help you create your own dungeon, to solo adventures, comedy adventures, professional to amateur publications, computer-generated dungeons etc. You can find that here. I say it's almost all - I know it's definately not all since I've found half a dozen more since then and I need a follow-up. When I was doing that I managed to unearth a lot of scenarios that I'd never heard of, particularly from UK fanzines and small press, and I wondered if it was possible to persuade any of the authors to let them be shared. I've managed to get 10 scenarios republished so far by 4 different authors, and in the process found a couple of unknown previously unpublished sequels to dungeons that were written at the time but not published for one reason or another. They're under the title Original Scenarios Resurrected which is a play on words, as it's both OSR and compares to Original Adventures Reincarnated which have (as per the spell) been reincarnated as 5th Edition adventures, whereas resurrection brings them back in the original form. The latest is a previously unpublished sequel to Quest for the Fazzlewood. I know several of you here already like zenopus and grodog and rredmond, so hello! |
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Post by rredmond on Aug 16, 2023 7:37:17 GMT -6
Welcome joenuttall you'll have to tell us the differences in those uncovered modules! I'd ask your favorite, but not sure you'd want to say Enjoy OD&D74! |
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Post by methuslah on Jan 25, 2024 9:22:40 GMT -6
Hail and Well Met!
My name's Richard, and a few of you might remember me from the pre-history of the OSR when I ran a little magazine called OD&DITIES. I've been gaming since '93, but a combination of circumstances meant that I pretty much stopped for the best part of a decade. Last year I got a campaign going again online (B/X, running the Keep on the Borderlands, just ended) and let's just say I'm back with a vengeance - I'm currently preparing a campaign based around the dungeons from Dungeoneer 1-6, in a setting I'm calling 'Septuaginta Septem'. (Yes, 77, indicating the cut-off point for material I'm using, I've spent the afternoon flipping through Best of Dragon I...)
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Post by jamesmishler on Jan 25, 2024 23:34:57 GMT -6
Hail and Well Met! My name's Richard, and a few of you might remember me from the pre-history of the OSR when I ran a little magazine called OD&DITIES. I've been gaming since '93, but a combination of circumstances meant that I pretty much stopped for the best part of a decade. Last year I got a campaign going again online (B/X, running the Keep on the Borderlands, just ended) and let's just say I'm back with a vengeance - I'm currently preparing a campaign based around the dungeons from Dungeoneer 1-6, in a setting I'm calling 'Septuaginta Septem'. (Yes, 77, indicating the cut-off point for material I'm using, I've spent the afternoon flipping through Best of Dragon I...) When I saw "Methuslah" I was like, no way, can't be! But WAY, and IS! Welcome back! It's good to see you here! |
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