Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Thread discussing OD&D campaign worlds from the 70s by originators and early adopters.

Thread discussing OD&D campaign worlds from the 70s by originators and early adopters. I added Holmes' personal campaign to the list:

"Another early one is the personal campaign of J. Eric Holmes from ~1975-1977, OD&D using the Warlock variant rules, before he had contact with TSR. Mostly unpublished, but we see glimpses in the Boinger and Zereth stories. The later stories in Dragon Magazine and Maze of Peril are distorted by time, but the Alarums & Excursions stories ('76-'77) are basically session journals that give a small window into the campaign at the time. Lots of stuff grabbed from the literature and the real world, coexisting side-by-side - witch doctors, samurai, vikings, Dune-like sandworms, Cthulhoid horrors etc"
http://odd74.proboards.com/thread/9122/list-od-campaign-worlds?page=1&scrollTo=124734

1 comment:

  1. I just responded in the discussion with a suggestion for the name of Holmes' campaign world: "World of Caladan."

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