OD&DITIES #1

~ early 2000; 9 pages

Table of Contents (author in parenthesis):

• Reviews – Information on the content and usefulness of OD&D products. (Richard Tongue)
  • B1 In Search of the Unknown
  • B2 Keep on the Borderlands
  • B3 Palace of the Silver Princess
• Getting Started – How to begin an OD&D campaign, obtaining materials and players. (Richard Tongue)
  • This article will attempt to answer a question often asked – how can you get started in OD&D.
• OD&D On-line – Information about various websites that deal with OD&D. (Richard Tongue)
  • This is the start of a regular column that, each issue, will detail a website with information useful to OD&D.
• Compendium of Characters – Four characters that can be slotted into a OD&D campaign or adventure. (Richard Tongue)
  • Vondar (Lawful Fighter, 1st Level)
  • Telamus ( Neutral Magic – User, 1st Level)
  • Deona ( Lawful Cleric, 1st Level)
  • Cren (Neutral Thief, 1st Level)
• Bows and Arrows – New rules for Bows and Arrows, designed for OD&D. (Richard Tongue)
  • If you examine the various missile weapons in OD&D, you can see that aside from differing ranges, the various missile weapons (except for heavy crossbow) are the same. Little consideration for the different types of bow, or for different types of arrows, is given.
• Getting Together – How to get a group of PCs to work together from the start of a campaign. (Richard Tongue)
  • When starting a campaign, one of the first problems a DM has to face is that of giving the PC’s a rationale to work together
• Street of a Thousand Adventures – Visit Thaldor’s Pawnshop, first in a line of town/city locations for your campaign. (Richard Tongue)
  • This section will detail a shop that can be slotted into any city or town in your campaign world, for your players to use or abuse as they see fit. They should fit anywhere from Specularum to Thyatis City, and provide useful and unusual services for the PC’s.
• The Message – An OD&D solo adventure for Fighters, Dwarves and Clerics of 1st Level. (Richard Tongue)
  • I am a Guardsman of the King, part of a patrol that was ambushed further up the road. My commander sent me with a message to take to the fort – we learned that the Goblins of this area are planning an ambush. If you are a true and loyal citizen of the king, please take this message to the fort, a day’s journey down the road. There will be danger and peril, but the fort must be saved.

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