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AD&D Reprints

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Recently WotC revealed that they will be republishing the three core rule books for AD&D. This probably serves as a way to keep D&D books on shelves during the period between editions, and possibly to gauge interest in re-releases. This will no doubt result in some players encountering the classic game for the first time, a whole new generation of people experiencing it. It will be interesting to see what those players may come up with based on their experience. They will be coming at the game from a totally different direction. It is impossible to say how many younger players will pick it up. Will they play it in large numbers, or will it be almost totally older players buying it?

I plan on picking up copies, but mostly just for collector purposes. At this point I hardly ever use the original rule books anyway. OSRIC works so much better at the tale, due to its better organization. At this point only a a rerelease that had substantial reorganization would replace OSRIC at my table. I even suggest OSRIC for people trying to start the game for the first time over the originals. While the DMG is great to read through, it is fairly difficult to figure the game out from the original books, especially combat initiative.

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  1. Anthony SimeoneFebruary 24, 2012 at 12:14 PM

    I find myself torn with regard to AD&D and the reprints. I started with 1E AD&D back in my teens. But these days, I feel like C&C is my AD&D. I don't seem to have any interest in going back to the original. It's strange because I never played a minute of 3.X D&D, but I find myself thinking that I couldn't do without an attribute check system of some sort (i.e. the SIEGE Engine mechanic). Then I wonder what happened to my "roleplay, not rollplay" attitude from back in the day! I know there are the old "roll under ability score" rules from D&D, but I feel like they don't take into account experience level like C&C's "add your level to the die roll" system. I know that that can be easily added to AD&D though, but then there's my need to not have to house rule too much. As you can see, I'm thinking a lot about all of this...

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  2. grodogFebruary 24, 2012 at 6:22 PM

    Thanks for the kind words for OSRIC, Rich :D

    Allan.

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