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The Holo-Earth is such a cool and underrated setting. At least a lot of people got introduced to it by the Monsterverse movies.

I would recommend city of brass to fallout new Vegas fans because of the faction system alone.

Not to be confused with city of Bass.

Playing Dungeons and Dragons pre-Internet forced players and DMs to be more creative. The classic accessories are testaments to this.

Thanks for the heart and the thumbs up from the captain and whomever respectively.

I didn't have a particular comment this time around, but nice video all the same. Thanks.

Hello Capt! Is this your very first video? I’m tempted to put out dungeons and dragons content reviewing the handful of old basic expert and advanced models that I have. I’ve always loved your theme song, where did you find it? If I was to put music as an introduction to my videos it would be a fine selection to have. Although I don’t want to use what song you already have. Love your content!

The lack of innovation was not a bug, it was a feature. I remember unsuccessfully trying to muddle through that Gygaxian prose of 1st edition. It wasn't until 2e that we could figure out how the game actually worked well enough to actually make the change over from the BECMI boxed sets. The value of 2e was not innovation, it was clarity. And all the old modules just ported right over.

The Monster & Treasure Assortment was useful as an example of how the OD&D dungeon encounter table was supposed to be used. In particular, the number appearing expected for those monsters encountered on each level.

Absolutely based 🫡

Hey pretty random question here. How do you put that link to your Patreon page in your video? I’m looking to put some videos on RUclips as well and I don’t know how to put the link on my individual videos. I have been able to put it in my channel though. Just not the individual videos so people can easily click on it.

I became a gamer during this era….frustrated that all I had were “old” copies of B/X bought from friends, so I pined after the then still new stuff. (It was difficult as my folks considered it “the devil’s game”) . So when the RC was released whilst I was 16 or so and my then girlfriend bought it for me on the day of release, I imagined I was in Heaven for years…….until… (I was extremely blessed to be a metalhead with a very hot gf who also was a bit of a nerd herself….i know!…seems like a screenplay rather than real life, right? Haha!) Until I quickly discovered that 36 levels was/is….well….incredibly stupid! (Totally screwing the already horribly screwed thief, at least!) The old B/X books I had made so much more sense….but still needed correction….because….well…who the heck ever goes past 7th level or so, like, ever? For me, today depending on mood, it’s OD&D by way of WhiteBox: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game or B/X itself or maybe OSE. (Outside it’s RISUS or a clone of original FF rpg, Spellzard!).

I'm just wondering.... Can my character marry the Vampire Queen? I know my party and the dwarves are gonna hate me.... But he can fix her! (I never played D&D before but I wanna start)

I don't understand why you'd fudge dice rolls. Undermines the whole point of rolling dice.

I was pleased that you rolled each of them! I hate an unrolled die!

I am interested in this game, but that near $200 price tag is hard to swallow.

10:14 thats not how you say scion. Its not sky-on, its like Psy-on

Also, I no longer use a conventional computer. I’ve been using an iPad for everything for nearly six years! I also, like most, no longer own a printer at home as I did for decades, for over 15 years now….. So, now what do we do?

The good old days when orcs were orcs, fighting men were fighting men, and everything was done for fun.

The difficulty is ridiculous. The only way any player is ever completing most of the quests is if I (as Zargon) let them win by purposely flubbing everything in their favor (including not letting some of the monsters even act, telling them not to go certain ways, and ignoring bad dice rolls). For crying out loud, the players can't even get to the Frozen Horror at the end unless they sacrifice a third or more of their health because of those dumb damage tiles leading up to it, and if they do get into the room they'll just immediately be massacred by the supporting monsters before even ever taking a swing at the big guy. The Wizard is worthless now because they have too few spells that are too weak. Even if I have Spell Ring Ball of Flame and good rolls I can't kill a single Yeti or Polar Warbear. It doesn't even feel like there's any skill involved in it at this point. That it's all just chance now. You just keep playing the same quest over and over until you get a run of really lucky dice rolls. It's no wonder I can't get anyone to play this with me. Who wants to play a game where one of the players just knocks the crud out of all the other players repeatedly?

BIG fan of hero quest! Been wondering about the differences. Thanks for explaining.

Isn’t the madman in the vampires castle a reference to Renfield from Dracula? He’s from an insane asylum, and obsessed with pets, including asking for a kitten. (To eat, of course)

Yuk. No. Old-school gamer here….dungeons suck. I despise dungeons. Always have since I was 12 in 1986. Blech! Also equally despise newer systems. (Except that now I’d rather use RISUS or the FF clone Spellzard! or at least using B/X or WB:FMAG!)

So this is where OSE came from eh?

Are the core rule books necessary to make fantasy grounds modules work properly? for example if I were to purchase the temple of elemental evil module on fantasy grounds. Do I need the fantasy grounds core rule books as well or can I just use my physical books if I have them?

I’m impressed that 13 year old me figured this stuff out with this book in 1981.

Hmmm ☺️

Fine ok fine! I will binge watch your videos while playing Ultima V Lazarus. (I hope you are catching the sarcasm lol I love your videos.)

Classic content. Jeff Dee's art>all

Pro tip: 1st edition is free! I love Barbarians of Lemuria!

Is there a softcover version?

Thanks for informing me about this game!

Noooo. I was interested in this but the Fimir was my absolute favorite as a kid because of his stompy tail. This new sculpt is awful, an abomination in deed. Hard pass.

My first D&D set! By the time any other kids I knew heard of D&E they were all getting rhe red box set and AD&D. I used my own books anyway, not knowing any different. When your DM is 10 years old the rules are stacked against you no matter what anyhow!

I love your channel. Every time I hear the beginning theme I feel like I am a kid again about to watch some fantasy movie that I know I will love.

I have into the borderlands by Goodman games and I love it. And I was hoping to buy the lost city by them as well, but they are no longer printing it, and scalpers have bought up the rest and are charging $300 - $400 for it online. Luckily I was able to get Noble knight games to print me a reprint of the old original module.

When I first got into the game, I had the Moldvay box set, but no one to play with, so I read the books obsessively, and spent a lot of time rolling up and creating characters, fully geared, named, and ready to go. They were all 1st level, but there were a lot of them. So the Rogue's Gallery was the first of these books I found, later on, and I loved it. It was a great insight into how they expected characters to develop over many levels, but there was also a wide swing to this. I never used these books in game, tho I had them, but I didn't DM much, or well, either. I just loved the stuff.

Jon's vlog is gone

Great video as always! I have a reprint of the lost city, and was hoping to get the one from Goodman games, but they don’t make that one anymore and it has been bought up by scalpers and being sold for $300-$400 online. But I shall be checking out your affiliate links!

Thank you for the kind words and review. I appreciate your praise. p.s. Last name is pronounced Teigeler (Tie-gler). Thanks buddy! keep up the great videos.

Purple Crown Royal dice bag ftw 😎

Firstly: Hell yeah MadIrishman! I have been going to his site since the early 2000s, and mostly due to the Gamma World sheets. More people need to know about the site! I did not have any Dungeon Geomorphs or the Rogues' Gallery when I got started in the late '80s, so I used the Random NPC tables and Dungeon Generation found in the old DMG. Personally (if printing is not an option), I would sort though the morphs and trace a map on a blank sheet of paper, using the morphs like a fashion design template, adding and omitting content freely. For NPCs, I used to buy packs of the 2e AD&D Collectable Trading Cards in the early '90s. Besides the usual Monster and Magic Item cards, there where Character cards that made for great ready-made NPCs. The front of a card has an image of the character while the back would have some basic game stats, magic items, and a short description/backstory of the character. Sadly, no ability scores, so that was something I had to make-up. A good number of those characters (nearly 100--a small tip the what was available in the card sets), were found in the second book to bare the name Rogues' Gallery, and had expanded information for each of them. Great video! Keep up the great work!

I ❤ whitebox rpg!!!

It sounds like it was based upon a noble idea, realism within fantasy gaming, but didn't put much care into making it playable at all.

Radiant as always, captcorajus.

I still have my rogues gallery, on the main shelf in my study next to my AD&D players handbook. When you look at that and the monster manual you see how the game has changed. basically there was little for dm's to think about the monster's motivation-it was all on you as these instructions basically had where to find it, how does it fight, what is it treasure.the art is good and i still love the bard in fishnet stockings The back part with the famous characters was amazing

Ah the rogue's gallery. I remember my 10-year-old self always smirking at that cover art where the guy has his hand down the ladies top. The early 80s was a very different time I suspect it would take a lot more to make me smirk now.

While these accessories are awesome, and they totally are awesome, they do not necessarily show the way the game was being played. That's like saying the stuff that has bro puts out today shows the way the game is being played. These accessories show the way the people at TSR thought that the game should be or Was being played by a very small of the gamers out there. These accessories tell us more about the people working at TSR than they do about the people playing the game out in the wild

Good video. My only issue is that Tolkien is in fact cited in Appendix N, for both The Hobbit and the Rings Trilogy.

I love that Erol Otus cover on the Rogues Gallery. I still use those dungeon geomorphs (I made mine by priting off a PDF, laminating the pages, and then carefully cutting them using one of those big paper cutters). Those and the Monster & Treasure Assortments are two of the best old-school D&D accessories ever (along with the Judges Guild Ready Ref Sheets). Cheers!