Hey im brand new to AD&D im 18 and been playing since I was 8 never thought about how easy 5th edition was till watching your content and realized how much more in-depth and effort put into the older edition and me and my group are about to start a new campaign in AD&D and im super exited thank you both for giving me more information into such a great game not being talked about
Thanks for your comment TG1HUNTER!!! We're glad to hear you like the content and we hope you enjoy your first adventures into AD&D. Keep your sword arm free!!!
Hey Jim and Alexander, Just wanted to thank you for all your content. I'm about your age Jim and cracked my teeth on 1st ed. DnD like you. I fully agree that my Encyclopedia Magica are treasures on my shelf. I, to this day, still run 2nd edition over all subsequent editions. I just have to figure out how to get to this thing you call "retirement"..hahaha...
You are most welcome. We're glad you enjoy our content. And, trust me, that retirement animal can be really elusive. Many don't even think it truly exists. But persevere! The beast is out there!
My Players back in the day pitched in and bought these for me for Christmas. I always think back to those days every time I thumb through them or see them on the shelf.
Hey Jim and Alexander. I found this old supplement by Mayfair Games called "Dark Folk." I was wondering if you have heard of this book or company. I believe the series is called "Role Aids," but i am not sure.
Volume 1 (first printings) of this series also is notorious for a famous "typo" caused by search-and-replace that was apparently done digitally, at the time. For whatever reason, it was decided that the term, "mage" should be replaced with, "wizard," I guess for consistency of 1e to 2e something? Regardless, a search-and-replace command was apparently used and they unknowingly also changed all instances (within a range, at least) of the word, "damage" to be changed to "dawizard." It's honestly hysterical. The example I always point people to is on page 351 for the Cube of Frost. The last word in the paragraph is "dawizard," so it is a quick way to find an instance of the error. The error apparently shows up on 16 pages in the book. At least one of the volumes of the Wizard's Spell Compendium has this goof in it, as well.
Great videos guys, I am an old school player (mostly 2nd ed), but I use material from 1st and BECMI as well. I managed to get some young people (about Alexander's age) to play with older editions and they love it. And as a side note, in most of my games, at some point, they meet some NPC called Frank, he is a recurring name and the players learned to expect a Frank to appear here and there, so it's been great to see you have your own, I will show him to my players. Again, great job and keep the videos coming, I love them.
I gave a friend an arrow of slaying once... Used yet another meaning of the word, and when he hit something with it, I believe it was an ogre, it took one point of damage, and promptly hit the floor laughing uncontrollably for one hour.
I started with 3.5e back in middle school so these books were well before my time. Still, I can't believe I haven't heard of them before! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Found a 4 vol 1st printing for a decent price on ebay and snagged it up today. Love the video and I appreciate this channel. Keep your sword arm free!!!
I adored these! Now…I was never an AD&D kind, but for some reason ate up the AD&D1E and later, especially the AD&D2E ‘splat books’, as I was well into my love of the D&D Rules Cyclopedia at the time. Of course….the first volume I picked up was the one that covered the magic swords! Haha!….they are all fun…but just the magic swords alone is inspiring and fun! 🙂
Ahhhh, the Potion of Good Humor, I know that one! We call it Prosecco round here!!! :) About The Shady Dragon Inn, it's a Mentzer's D&D supplement (AC series) and one of my favourite as it describes, and actually presents them in pictures, dozens of NPCs from each D&D class, background, stats and equipment! Weird fact: it features bearded elves! The interesting thing it does is to show how much diversity you can give to characters from the same class by roleplaying them differently, and I remind you (what you already know for sure) that back then, from Moldvay to Mentzer, fighter, thief, magic-user, cleric, dwarf, elf and halfling were actually classes, with no choice/split of race and class. I didn't remember the Shady Dragon featured magic items, though...I go checking!
@@theoldwarlock Yessiree! Like I said, that was when HPB didn't know how to price stuff (I'll tell you sometime about how I got practically the entire run of D&D Gazetteers for $10 from HPB).
Have you thought about explaining running dungeons? I understand that there was a turn order for dungeons in older editions. Could you explain what they are or where to find them?
If you are asking about spells, there were also book sets for magic-users and clerics printed around the same time: The Wizard's Spell Compendium (four books) and The Priest's Spell Compendium (three books.)
Hey im brand new to AD&D im 18 and been playing since I was 8 never thought about how easy 5th edition was till watching your content and realized how much more in-depth and effort put into the older edition and me and my group are about to start a new campaign in AD&D and im super exited thank you both for giving me more information into such a great game not being talked about
Thanks for your comment TG1HUNTER!!! We're glad to hear you like the content and we hope you enjoy your first adventures into AD&D. Keep your sword arm free!!!
Hey Jim and Alexander, Just wanted to thank you for all your content. I'm about your age Jim and cracked my teeth on 1st ed. DnD like you. I fully agree that my Encyclopedia Magica are treasures on my shelf. I, to this day, still run 2nd edition over all subsequent editions. I just have to figure out how to get to this thing you call "retirement"..hahaha...
You are most welcome. We're glad you enjoy our content. And, trust me, that retirement animal can be really elusive. Many don't even think it truly exists. But persevere! The beast is out there!
My Players back in the day pitched in and bought these for me for Christmas. I always think back to those days every time I thumb through them or see them on the shelf.
Hey Jim and Alexander. I found this old supplement by Mayfair Games called "Dark Folk." I was wondering if you have heard of this book or company. I believe the series is called "Role Aids," but i am not sure.
Hey Alec - My hazy memory seems to recall Role Aids. Now I'm curious. I'll take a look and get back to you if I can find any of the series. Thanks!
Volume 1 (first printings) of this series also is notorious for a famous "typo" caused by search-and-replace that was apparently done digitally, at the time. For whatever reason, it was decided that the term, "mage" should be replaced with, "wizard," I guess for consistency of 1e to 2e something? Regardless, a search-and-replace command was apparently used and they unknowingly also changed all instances (within a range, at least) of the word, "damage" to be changed to "dawizard." It's honestly hysterical. The example I always point people to is on page 351 for the Cube of Frost. The last word in the paragraph is "dawizard," so it is a quick way to find an instance of the error. The error apparently shows up on 16 pages in the book. At least one of the volumes of the Wizard's Spell Compendium has this goof in it, as well.
You have no idea how disappointed I was to find mine is a second printing.
Nice, I have that version. Time to introduce some dawizard in the campaign.
Shady Dragon Inn is a great book for Basic/Expert D&D. Like the Rogues Gallery book, it's a collection of pregenerated characters (and Owen).
Thanks, JC. I've got to go check it out now.
This is awesome. They made similar books for the wizard and priest spell compendiums.
Great! What's their tittles?
@@H-HWJvN the wizard spell compendium and the priest spell compendium.
@@H-HWJvN the priest has 3 volumes and the wizard one has 4.
Thank you very much Seth!
The Arrow of Sleighing is about the funniest thing I’ve heard all week😂
Hey Marcis! Yeah, Ioved that one.
Great videos guys, I am an old school player (mostly 2nd ed), but I use material from 1st and BECMI as well.
I managed to get some young people (about Alexander's age) to play with older editions and they love it.
And as a side note, in most of my games, at some point, they meet some NPC called Frank, he is a recurring name and the players learned to expect a Frank to appear here and there, so it's been great to see you have your own, I will show him to my players.
Again, great job and keep the videos coming, I love them.
Thanks, Giulio! And we're glad you like Frank - he's a fun guy.
I gave a friend an arrow of slaying once... Used yet another meaning of the word, and when he hit something with it, I believe it was an ogre, it took one point of damage, and promptly hit the floor laughing uncontrollably for one hour.
Now 'that's' a fun magic item : )
That's good stuff.
I started with 3.5e back in middle school so these books were well before my time. Still, I can't believe I haven't heard of them before! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Found a 4 vol 1st printing for a decent price on ebay and snagged it up today. Love the video and I appreciate this channel. Keep your sword arm free!!!
We hope you find a set. Someone also mentioned they’re available at DriveThruRPG as PDFs. I know you’ll enjoy then. Thanks!
Whoops, just realized you said you’d found a set. Glad you did. KYSAF!
Also…I found to determine an item randomly consisted of me grabbing a volume and opening a page and closing my eyes and pointing. lol
I adored these! Now…I was never an AD&D kind, but for some reason ate up the AD&D1E and later, especially the AD&D2E ‘splat books’, as I was well into my love of the D&D Rules Cyclopedia at the time.
Of course….the first volume I picked up was the one that covered the magic swords! Haha!….they are all fun…but just the magic swords alone is inspiring and fun! 🙂
Being the nerds we are, we read those for fun. They're great.
Ahhhh, the Potion of Good Humor, I know that one! We call it Prosecco round here!!! :) About The Shady Dragon Inn, it's a Mentzer's D&D supplement (AC series) and one of my favourite as it describes, and actually presents them in pictures, dozens of NPCs from each D&D class, background, stats and equipment! Weird fact: it features bearded elves! The interesting thing it does is to show how much diversity you can give to characters from the same class by roleplaying them differently, and I remind you (what you already know for sure) that back then, from Moldvay to Mentzer, fighter, thief, magic-user, cleric, dwarf, elf and halfling were actually classes, with no choice/split of race and class. I didn't remember the Shady Dragon featured magic items, though...I go checking!
o forse "Gelato" haha!
Well yeah! Indispensable. Got my set at Half-Price Books for $50 (back when HPB didn't really know what they had).
Greetings Glen! $50? For the set? I have dreams about that kind of thing happening!
@@theoldwarlock Yessiree! Like I said, that was when HPB didn't know how to price stuff (I'll tell you sometime about how I got practically the entire run of D&D Gazetteers for $10 from HPB).
@@GlenHallstrom Oh wow... I swooned when you mentioned the $10 set of Gazetteers. lol :-) Amazing!
Such handsome volumes.
Ah, looks like this was maybe filmed around Christmas.
Good stuff
I don’t have these books but may have to try to get them
These along side the complete spells compendiums for wizards and priests are in my opinion the holy grails of 2e
I only have the first one still. Volume 4 is the best one to have! It's got the swords!
Have you thought about explaining running dungeons? I understand that there was a turn order for dungeons in older editions. Could you explain what they are or where to find them?
We may be answering that question in a video on early dungeon crawling this winter Seth. We'll let you know.
Smell like the '80s spirit !
:)
Drivethrurpg has them in pdf! $9.99 each.
Thanks for letting us know!
I only have the pdfs (so far…)
It's my new quest to get all the original books. Tisn't inexpensive, though.
Pdf's will these will have to do, for me.
good job, funny...
Thanks, Frank!
Is there the same kind of book collection all the magic?
If you are asking about spells, there were also book sets for magic-users and clerics printed around the same time: The Wizard's Spell Compendium (four books) and The Priest's Spell Compendium (three books.)
Hey. I have those.
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