Gary Gygax R.I.P. - Page 4

chrispedersen · #1 May 9th, 2010, 09:37 PM

loved unearthed arcana...

Gregstrom · #2 May 10th, 2010, 03:29 AM

In 3/3.5 Unearthed Arcana =/= Arcana Unearthed (just to add confusion). Arcana Unearthed was done by Ed Greenwood, and was great fun.

Lingchih · #3 May 10th, 2010, 04:06 AM

Umm. the last D&D I played did not have any numbers attached to it. In fact, I think I played the first edition. Does that make me old? Yeah, I guess it does.

But it doesn't discount the fact the GG was a pioneer, and visionary.

Edit: acutually, the last D&D that I played was AD&D, so I guess I am slightly more current.

Soyweiser · #4 May 10th, 2010, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Lingchih

Edit: acutually, the last D&D that I played was AD&D, so I guess I am slightly more current.

Iirc that is the second edition. It had advanced added to it.

chrispedersen · #5 May 10th, 2010, 05:53 AM

you and me lingchi.

I actually have a copy of chainmail, (several actually) which tsr released prior to dnd as well as copies of all versions of dnd

nordlys · #6 May 10th, 2010, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Lingchih

Edit: acutually, the last D&D that I played was AD&D, so I guess I am slightly more current.

Iirc that is the second edition. It had advanced added to it.

Nope, before 3e D&D and AD&D were two different games. AD&D had 2 editions from 1977 and 1989, D&D had 5 or 6 editions between about 1974 to 1994 or so.

3e D&D is actually 3rd edition of AD&D, they just dropped the "advanced" part since it made marketing people nervous and the original D&D was long discontinued anyway.

S.R. Krol · #7 May 10th, 2010, 08:31 PM

J.Eric Holmes (first D&D blue box author) has passed.

And now today, Frank Frazetta has also gone to the great realms.

Wrana · #8 May 11th, 2010, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by S.R. Krol

J.Eric Holmes (first D&D blue box author) has passed.

And now today, Frank Frazetta has also gone to the great realms.

A pity. Though I like Les Edwards' pictures more.
The age is almost gone.

Gregstrom · #9 May 10th, 2010, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Lingchih

the last D&D that I played was AD&D, so I guess I am slightly more current.

1978 is slightly current, I guess

Wrana · #10 May 11th, 2010, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Lingchih

Umm. the last D&D I played did not have any numbers attached to it. In fact, I think I played the first edition. Does that make me old? Yeah, I guess it does.

I don't know. Probably it does me too.

But yes, without numbers it was a 1st edition AD&D - I started with it too, and at that time we had about a pair of physical books of it in Moscow (one of them ended up in my bookshelf at the end

). And some guys I played with started with Original D&D (Cyclopedia edition). Some of them continue still, though it's now mainly Warhammer and some other systems.