02-28-2013, 01:40 PM
Havard Wrote:Hi Nowthenzen!
Welcome to The Comeback Inn!
Great story btw! Did you guys use the Blackmoor Supplement back then? Or The First Fantasy Campaign perhaps?
-Havard
I am sure we had Greyhawk in the group and I remember reading Blackmoor and absorbing the ideas of Temple of the Frog about how to stock an encounter. I am sure I held a copy of Gods, D-G &H and probably Eldritch Wizardy. Not sure about Swords & Spells. I think our group formed in '77 with the white box, someone got hold of the blue box basic and as we were accumlating supplements we turned onto AD&D MM and PH. I know I had all 3 core AD&D books, MM, PH, and DMG and I remember thinking Unearthed Arcana was a 'reach' for revenue by TSR. That was in the mid '80s and the group wound down (I think max levels were 9th, 10th, 11th for the core players and the second group .. or the re-group made it to 5th-7th). {shout out to Wikipedia for providing the reference material for my list}
Based on the time line I think my group was 2nd gen D&D .. the guys who introduced the game to us were early or first adopters. After that 1st interaction our two groups did not cross over .. never played with those guys in the HS library.