The Super Secret Happy Birthday Gary Gygax Giveaway Bundle Extravapalooza!...
WOTC reprint 1st Edition Players HandbookThe Secret DM is running a great contest with an awesome prize...A complete set of WOTCs recently reprinted 1st edition AD&D books!!and The chance to have...
View ArticleMicrolite74 Plus Project from RetroRoleplaying: The Blog
While Microlite74 Plus will not be the final name of the product (at least I hope I can come up with something better), I have decided to go ahead and work on a not-really-microlite (in size) complete...
View ArticleMicrolite74 Plus Edition Discussions from RetroRoleplaying: The Blog
A few discussions on Microlite74 Plus have started up on our new Microlite74 Forum. If you are interested in Microlite74 Plus, create and account, join in the discussions (and/or start your own on...
View ArticleMicrolite74 3.0 Companions II and III In Draft from RetroRoleplaying: The Blog
In addition to slow work on Microlite74 Plus, I'm currently working on two new Companions for Microlite74. One is entitled Treasure and will be an adaption of the Treasure section of the Microlite74...
View Article13 Days of Halloween: Day Four from Greyhawk Grognard
PYRE WRAITHFREQUENCY: RareNO. APPEARING: 1 (or 11-20)ARMOR CLASS: 2MOVE: 9”HIT DICE: 3+1% IN LAIR: 100%TREASURE TYPE: UNO. OF ATTACKS: 4DAMAGE/ATTACK: 2-7SPECIAL ATTACKS: See belowSPECIAL DEFENSES: See...
View ArticleWotC To Publish New AD&D Material, Encourage AD&D Campaigns from Greyhawk...
I'll confess that I've never been a particular fan of the A1-4 series of modules. I fully understand that they've got an excellent reputation among many of my colleagues in the OSR, but they just never...
View ArticleCT Scan Results, Holiday RetroRoleplaying Cancer Fund Drive, and AD&D...
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, my wife was scheduled for her annual CT Scan in early November. The results are back and are excellent. At about 4.5 years after surgery to remove over one-third...
View ArticleAD&D Coloring Book Added to Holiday RetroRoleplaying Cancer Fund Donation...
While unpacking boxes of Christmas decorations Thanksgiving weekend, I discover a small box of gaming materials I hadn't seen since my move to Waco in 2004. The main find was my three notebooks full of...
View ArticleYou’d Better Watch Out: Santa Claus in My Campaigns 1976-2012 from...
I was running a fairly large college game of D&D in 1976. December comes around and we get one last session in before finals and everyone heading home for the holidays. As the party returned from...
View ArticleHelp the RetroRoleplaying Cancer Fund And Get a Chance at OD&D and AD&D Items...
This is an updated post about the Holiday RetroRoleplaying Cancer Fund Drive. As several additional donor giveaway items have been added since the drive started, the original post is out of date....
View ArticleEverything Old is New Again Part 2 from Dragonlance D&D Game Blog
It's been awhile since my last post, so it's only fitting that this post is really just a continuation of the last one. Seems that while there were a number of reprints in 2012, in 2013 we can look...
View ArticleNo D&D Next (If I was in Charge of D&D at WOTC) from RetroRoleplaying: The Blog
I've made no secret of the fact that the new "D&D Next" isn't doing much for me. I've been asked what I would do if I were in charge of D&D at WOTC several times over the past year. Here's my...
View ArticleWizards of the Coasts PDFs Now Available from Greyhawk Grognard
Well, the rumors and speculation have turned out to be true; Wizards of the Coast has teamed up with Onebookshelf to make pdf's of a bunch of their older products available.Their items are available...
View ArticleBack Catalog D&D PDFs Begin to Resurface on DriveThruRPG from Critical Hits »...
PDF editions for D&D products have begun to reappear on both DriveThruRPG and the new completely branded site D&D Classics.
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I discover I have surprisingly strong feelings on griffons versus hippogriffs...
The most recent Dragon’s-Eye View from Wizards of the Coast took a look at hippogriffs. The article focused on how to make hippogriffs visually distinctive from griffons. It made me think about...
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New Plans for RetroRoleplaying.com in 2013 from RetroRoleplaying: The Blog
I've already answered what seems to be the burning question, will Microlite74 continue now that legal TSR-era PDFs are returning in this post: Publication of Microlite74 Will Continue. However, the...
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Every D&D Edition For Sale! from Geek Related » RPG
In case you’re one of the few who missed it, Wizards of the Coast has finally joined the Information Age and decided to make all old D&D editions available for sale electronically at D&D...
View ArticleSupplement Review: Deities & Demigods (1e) from Game Knight Reviews
Once upon a time I was 12 years old and started playing Dungeons & Dragons First Edition with my friends from junior high school. Many weekends between 1982 and 1985, Bob, Jayson, Dwight, Sean, and...
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Old School Conversions of WOTC D&D Material from RetroRoleplaying: The Blog
There's a greater thread on theRPGSite where people are converting classes, races, and monsters from (mainly) WOTC D&D to old school (TSR) editions of D&D is this thread: Oldschool Conversions...
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Review TSR Era PDFs in the RetroRoleplaying Forum from RetroRoleplaying: The...
WOTC is releasing TSR era products as PDFs again on DNDClassics/RPGNow/DriveThruRPG. To review these games there, you have to buy a copy there. This helps to prevent fake reviews. However, it also...
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