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Post by Lord Huthor on Oct 10, 2014 4:47:40 GMT
Some of this stuff I actually have: Chainmail, Men and Magic, Blackmoor etc, the Holmes set....
Can someone tell me in what order these things run?
Some of the materials quoted in these threads I've never heard of.
Thanks.
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Post by EggMcMuffin on Oct 10, 2014 5:48:25 GMT
Chainmail came first.
M&M was booklet 1 of the OD&D LBBs
Blackmoor was supplement II of the LBBs
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Post by Lord Huthor on Oct 10, 2014 5:58:55 GMT
Thanks for that.
So Holmes was the combination/refining of the LBB's?
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Post by EggMcMuffin on Oct 10, 2014 6:19:08 GMT
Yes.
"Guidon Games released the first edition of Chainmail in 1971 as its first miniature wargame and one of its three debut products."
"In 1974, TSR (with Kaye's basement as a base of operations) ran off 1,000 copies of D&D, selling them for $10 each and the extra dice needed for another $3.50.[2] In January 1975, TSR printed a second 1,000 copies of D&D, which took only another five or six months to sell out."
"D&D supplements Eldritch Wizardry and Gods, Demi-gods & Heroes were released in 1976, and the original D&D Basic Set was released in 1977."
Dr J. Eric Holmes combined some of his own "House Rules"with material from the original booklets, and supplements 1 (perhaps 2, I am not sure on that account.)
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2014 12:52:00 GMT
Dr J. Eric Holmes combined some of his own "House Rules"with material from the original booklets, and supplements 1 (perhaps 2, I am not sure on that account.) I think very little from Supplement 2 made it to Holmes, if any. Supplement 2: Blackmoor included a complex hit-location combat system, the assassin and the monk, and lots of undersea and marine creatures. Then there is The Temple of the Frog adventure. And finally, notes on underwater adventures, specialists, and disease. I don't recall any of this being in Holmes. Prespos |
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Post by EggMcMuffin on Oct 11, 2014 19:19:16 GMT
"Fire Beetles" appear fully statted in BM, then Holmes.
That's about the only thing that seems to transfer from BM to Holmes.
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Post by Malcadon on Oct 11, 2014 21:57:06 GMT
Here is a timeline I found listing the major rule-sets (short of Next/5e):  So yeah, the whole "edition" thing is a bit of a misnomer.  |
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