Ye Olde Inn

Again, I know this is not HQ, but I thought I'd give you guys here first dibs on anything.

I have some D&D books I'm going to sell. I'll list prices below, though it will be +shipping, which I
will have to get to the post office to find out how much that will be.

3.5 Dragon Compendium Vol 1 - $5.00
3.5 Fiendish Codex 1: Hordes of the Abyss - $5.00
3.5 Fiendish Codex 2: Tyrants of the Nine Hells - $5.00
3.5 Players Handbook 2 - $5.00
3.5 Monster Manual 4 - $5.00
3.5 Monster Manual 5 - $5.00
World of Warcraft Horde Player's Guide (3.0 ed.) - $5.00
AD&D Complete Fighter's Guide - $2.00

All are in Like-New or near Like-New condition, except the Complete Fighter's Guide...
Very good condition for that one.

Please don't tell us you are going to 4th edition...

No - definitely not. The only reason I have any 3rd or 3.5 is because that's what it was when I got into D&D.
I keep those mainly just for ideas and such, since all the people I know who play went to 4th ed.

If I ever get a group together to play, it'll either be for HQ, or if they want to play D&D I'll try to
push them toward basic. I've tried AD&D and that just has too much going on for me. I get the AD&D
stuff, again, for ideas and tricks and such, or just for collecting purposes, like with greyhawk
materials.
I like basic the best, though. Nice and simple, leaves a lot to the players to work out on their own
as a group, and the writers for the basic games and accessories seem to be better to me.

I used to have fun playing basic, then a smattering of expert D&D. (My group always wanted to play AD&D, so lots of headaches there--I was quite the rules lawyer.) My favorite BE module was Blade of Vengeance, a one-off solo for a 7th-level Elf. Done right by a Brit--anybody who played it loved it.

Previous to that, I even made a 27 page(?) solo Basic adventure for a 0-2 level Fighter (house rule, -50 or -250? XP start with some penalties that lifted at 0 XP). Six or seven play throughs, everybody managed to survive, loads of fun.

I'm hoping D&D Next core rules will play like BE. If so, I just might pick up a book or three. Hopefully there will be some cool modules forthcoming to rival the old feel. If that works, maybe I'll try some of the optional upgrade books and go full swing D&D again...NAHHH!

Just had a thought--are you interested in 3.0-3.5 Dragon Magazines? I inherited a collection of maybe 50 issues from a friend who moved. Being you're the forum's D&D aficionado, I'd pass them on to ya at cost. That would be free. The problem is the cost of shipping that you'd pay--I'm in Taiwan.

When everyone refers to AD&D I myself think of 2nd edition. By extension would you consider Basic D&D to mean 1st generation white/red box? I'm not trying to open up a slugfest of opinions but do you like 2E (AD&D) more than 3/3.5E let alone 1E? I just found the jump from 2E to 3E to be a big relief in so many ways. I started with second and always felt it was so restrictive but 3E (with houseruled exceptions) was a lot better, for me at least.

Daedalus wrote:I was quite the rules lawyer.

I'm going to have to converse with you at large about this subject Daedalus. I was the gaming encyclopedia for my group because I'd pull the most obscure rules into play just to gain that sliver of an advantage. Sadly most of the time the answer I got was "No" only because I wanted to do it.

I hate 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and Pathfinder.

We rock the old 1982 Frank Mentzer here at my dungeon. Played the 3.0 crap once and it took only once for me to know it sucked.

As for basic D&D, I go with those that decipher posted in his picture - the frank mentzer materials.
I know very little about AD&D, except it is WAY too complicated - I know there are some difference
between 1st and 2nd ed., but I couldn't tell you what they are, really.

I like 3.0/3.5 okay enough - that's what I started playing on. I like the frank mentzer D&D the most, though.
Well, whatever is found in the Rules Cyclopedia, that is. That's what I use the most.

AD&D complicated? No way. Everything has its own sub-set of rules. There's no clumsy universal mechanic--basically, its designed so that you only use what you need, when you need it.

I played AD&D for a decade, and then 3.0/3.5/PF for a decade, and I wish I could take the latter back. I freakin' hate the d20 system.

The Rules Cyclopedia, by the way, is tits. I love that.

Decipher, why do you have 2 of each?