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The Basic Set we got didn't come with dice, so we started off playing with little cardboard chits in paper cups and sent away for dice. And yes, I still have my first set of dice (although the d8 went missing somewhere along the way). WoW and I thought we had it rough :lol: good fun, good times! :u...

We heard about D&D from a schoolmate back in fall of 1979. We started to play, but what we started with was a far cry from the actual game. I wasn't until Christmas of '79 when my best friend and I each got the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set under the tree and we started playing in earnest. We...

I know I've posted this in other threads here on this page, but it applies here, so I'll say it again. D&D is not intended to simulate reality . It is intended to simulate heroic fantasy . The abstract combat system and the hit point are an extension of this. Look at it this way: there is a scen...

On a side note, deserts CAN be cool. A desert is defined by the amount of precipitation an area gets, not by the temperature. In fact, the largest desert on Earth is also the coldest place on Earth. Although there can be heavy storms on the coast, the interior of Antarctica is a vast desert which re...

Perhaps it's because the game worlds don't fit onto cards?