Thanks for pointing that out. Interesting thread, but it misses the point for me. Holmes had a charm and magic that I didn't find in the LBB's. Since it came out before AD&D my friends and I had to develop our own spells, advanced rules, etc... from what we found in Holmes and it wasn't hard to do.
Hopefully I will be working on a detailed version of B1 shortly that will reflect the original home-grown campaign I participated in back in the day before and after AD&D arrived. I've written about part of that campaign in an altered version for one of my stories set in Greyhawk, but this original campaign followed a little closer to the module.
Besides the accessible design and author's tone, I'd say a lot of the charm of Holmes Basic can be summed up in two words - Sutherland and Trampier : )
That Trampier illo of the fighter battling the minotaur will happily live on in my subconscious for the rest of my natural life.
Thanks for pointing that out. Interesting thread, but it misses the point for me. Holmes had a charm and magic that I didn't find in the LBB's. Since it came out before AD&D my friends and I had to develop our own spells, advanced rules, etc... from what we found in Holmes and it wasn't hard to do.
ReplyDeleteHopefully I will be working on a detailed version of B1 shortly that will reflect the original home-grown campaign I participated in back in the day before and after AD&D arrived. I've written about part of that campaign in an altered version for one of my stories set in Greyhawk, but this original campaign followed a little closer to the module.
Besides the accessible design and author's tone, I'd say a lot of the charm of Holmes Basic can be summed up in two words - Sutherland and Trampier : )
ReplyDeleteThat Trampier illo of the fighter battling the minotaur will happily live on in my subconscious for the rest of my natural life.