Welcome to my OD&D page. I grew up playing a mixture of Holmes D&D, Moldvay/Cook/Marsh B/X D&D, and first edition AD&D.
It all just kind of went into the pot together and we went back and forth between all of them, often combining elements
of the different variations into our playstyle. I've always liked the creative freedom of the older editions where "use
your imagination and have fun" was the golden rule and it was expected that each DM would have their own individual set
of house rules added to the basic D&D framework.
In the 2010's, as I delved deeper into the hobby, I discovered that the intent of the original edition best represented
that freedom to me. Toward that end, I've undertaken to tinker with the old guidelines a bit for my own enjoyment and
because I've always been a hobbyist at heart. This page will be where I fiddle around with new ideas, tinker with rule
variants, and work on creating my own "world". Some of what is written here are my own ideas and inspirations. Some are
ideas taken from other places on the web and adapted and modified to fit my specific game world or personal aesthetics.
And some have been lifted completely intact from various forum postings and gaming blogs written by people far more
creative than me. As always, my ideas and needs are constantly changing, so this will be a continual WIP.
I've played around with the original D&D classes to give them a little more individuality, make them a little more interesting, or broaden their skills and abilities a bit. I've drawn a few concepts for Fighters from the old Chainmail game, rolled in some assassin and thief-acrobat skills with the Thief to make it more versatile, written demi-humans to feel more like completely different races rather than just "small humans with pointy ears", and made the Cleric class both more general, in order to make it fit into a wider scheme, and more specific to better fit the particular order the individual player is a part of. I've also played around with the magic system a bit, combining some spell point concepts within the standard spell level model. In the section below are links to text files for each of the classes.
Here be various OD&D rules, classic D&D rules, house rules, tables, magic spells, a creature catalogue, magical treasures, my own World of Aurora as I design all the bits and pieces of it, and a few other things. There are also some ideas for psionics - a mixture of D&D and Traveller rpg powers - which is completely unfinished.
This section contains various dungeons and adventuring locales I am in the process of making. . .
Links to some archived rpg books and resources can be found here.