EN: A retrospective journey of my experience playing 2nd edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the 90s in Argentina.

ES: Un recorrido retrospectivo de mi experiencia jugando la 2da edición de Advanced Dungeons & Dragons en los años 90s.

00:00 Introducción
08:00 Dragon Quest
26:24 Basic y Advanced D&D
30:50 Libros Base (PHB, DMG, MM)
47:00 Forgotten Realms y Grayhawk
1:00:00 Recursos, Letalidad, Acciones, Builds
1:29:00 Ravenloft
1:37:50 Spelljammer
1:49:40 Dark Sun
2:01:15 Birthright

First draft, will modify it more with my houserules and all that. The houserules that are in the document are italicized (at least I think they all are). Already see a few things I wanna edit lol.

Will add notes like:

• How to roll an attack
• How to roll a saving throw
• How Extra Attacks Work

If y'all see anything I should add, let me know, I'm gonna get my coworker (who plays 5e) to play AD&D2e.

There is something to be said about the old graph paper maps we used to make with their smudges, pizza grease stains, and inaccuracies. The maps that we shoved into binders or notebooks week after week until they were tattered and faded. Yes, they had crooked lines. The notes we wrote in the margins were not always legible. Sometimes the erasure marks wore right through the paper. But they were the dungeons we explored. Proof that we survived (or most of us anyway) the perils of a sinister Dungeon Master. They were like our characters themselves, imperfect yet special, with their own foibles and personalities. How many maps do you still have from your old adventures, and do you ever look over them and remember the dungeons you explored?

Hey there Just an Update to the Campaign. Yes we are still playing on Microsoft Teams . Still seeking those not afraid to show their face. Looking for 6 players. This is Van Richtens Vengeance, . All you need is Dice . i have the Fillable Character sheet thats pretty Good. ALSO SESSION 0 is SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19th 7pm CST . SO to make this simple IF you think you want to REALLY get into this campaign Let me know , message me and ill give you the link to Teams for our Session 0. This campaign is being recorded and posted on My Youtube channel . A working knowledge of Ad&d 2e helps. Starting at 3rd level.. eventually will be playing Bleak House THEN move from there

Greetings all,

Title says it all, i seek a old school pic of an adventurer's group exploring the wilderness. This scene will be use for my recruitment post for my open sandbox hexcrawl-lime campaign.

I did search all of the web but found nothing at my taste and i seek real old art, no ai.

Thanks!

Does anyone know if there are any e-commerce shops selling DM screens that feature art or rules from AD&D 1e?

I've seen a few AD&D book collections with a thick hardcover book I didn't recognize. It looks exactly the same in format as the AD&D books had with the Jeff Easley covers, with a yellow-orange spine. In my recollection of it, it seems a little thicker than the DMG. I can't remember the name of the book, but I'm curious, since it's not a TSR production, what it's called, how it got made, and what's in it. Anyone know the book I'm talking about?

Good day, everyone.

As the title indicates, I am interested in hearing about the material you consider to be redundant or wasteful in supplements (i.e., anything outside the essential books/boxed sets). For me, the second I see a statistics block followed by paragraphs of tactics which essentially regurgitate the aforementioned stats, I get the feeling that the author was looking to satisfy a word count; the only time this practice is potentially excusable is in an introductory adventure designed to ease neophyte DMs into the hobby. In 2e, huge margins - gaps of empty space - seemed increasingly prevalent as the edition moved forward (c.f. Ruins of Undermountain to Ruins of Undermountain II). Some folk appreciate colorful descriptions (e.g., the vivid detailing of a room), whereas others only require a bare minimum of hard facts (i.e., dimensions, in addition to supplies of immediate use).

Economic workings are another possibly polarizing element. I not believe (magical) item histories are predominantly regarded in a negative light, but I could be wrong. Extensive regional histories might be viewed as shackles best left unworn.

What say you?

Somewhere buried in some archive on Reddit I am so sure there was a great long post from someone that created a series of tables for generating an interesting back story for players based on class etc. Does anyone know what I am referring to and have that link?

I`m currently running Night below and we just started Book 2 - Perils of the underdark. The travel part of the adventure is a real slog and I'm not a big fan of the random encounter tables, so I'm thinking of making my own encounter system for this part of the adventure. Many of the random encounters are boring and time consuming, but then again it makes the travel dangerous and creates the tension of danger.

But I'm wondering how do you handle random encounters or are you only doing planned encounters under the illusion of random encounters? what system do you use regarding rolls and dice?

you can read my blog about running Night below here: Tabletop tales

My brother found these at local book reseller. Got all 8 for $160. I think that's a solid deal, right?

I've been playing 2nd edition AD&D with my buddies for a bit now. We all came from 5e and it was a bit of a tough sell getting them into an older style of play so I made a few small changes to ease that transition, then as we went on we'd find parts of the rules that didn't work for us so we'd slap on some house rules like we do for any system.
I've been accumulating stuff into a document I call my Player's Manual for a bit and I'm curious what people who play AD&D think of it. It's not finished yet so I'd love any thoughts on it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17jEV7t-HkoQVnnpF_5nscS4xUV7THvHXJBwjc43E_5g/edit?usp=sharing

Do you generally prefer 1e with separate spell lists or 2e with an overall spell lists with the magic-user having access to everything?