OD&DITIES #8

September 2002, 30 pages

Table of Contents (author in parenthesis):

• Letters
• Getting Started – Part eight of our popular series for OD&D beginners. (Richard Tongue)
  • This issue, we are going to deal with the final phase of initial campaign development: tying in adventure hooks to your campaign world.
• Starting a D&D campaign in 1973 – A look at a D&D Campaign that might have been. (Scott Casper)
  • Starting a D&D campaign in 1973 certainly wouldn’t be easy, since no books with the name Dungeons & Dragons had been published yet at that time. But it wouldn’t be impossible. There were several resources a potential DM of the time could have used. The most obvious resource would be the original Chainmail rules, which had been available since 1969.
• The Perils of Lakeside – An OD&D Adventure for 3-5 adventurers of levels 4-6. (Geoff Gander)
  • This adventure was first written in 1990 for the Mystara™ campaign setting (under the title of “Journey to Razak’s Rock”), and takes place on Razak’s Rock, an otherwise unprepossessing island in Darokin’s Lake Amsorak.
• The Cleric – Latest in our series looking at the basic character classes. (Richard Tongue)
  • The Cleric is perhaps the easiest character class to individualize, even though the archetypes are perhaps not quite as common in fantasy literature as with the other major character classes. You still have characters like Friar Tuck, or Brother Cadfael, or numerous references from the East.
• D&D Supplement One: Greyhawk – A review of one of the books that started it all. (Scott Casper)
  • Hot on the heels of the world-changing release of the Dungeons & Dragons game in 1974 was the publication of its first supplement in 1975.
• Compendium of Characters – One of our old regulars returns! (Richard Tongue)
  • Akkarakk, 4th Level Neutral Goblin
  • Sironne, 5th Level Lawful Centaur
• Magical Spells and the Flame of Life – The start of a new series on new forms of magic. (Derrick Landwehr)
  • Thousands of years ago, an ancient civilization of magic-users who worshipped flame and life prospered. However, some time ago an unknown calamity befell upon these magical peoples. Throughout the ages, the secrets of their powerful magic have only been known by a few who have discovered and researched the arts of the Flame of Life.
• Tomb of the Mage – An OD&D Adventure for 2-4 adventurers of levels 2-3. (Richard Tongue)
  • You have long heard whispered stories of the legendary Magic-User – Charrel Fane. Long ago, it is rumoured, he saved the County of Cerwyn from an evil invader, giving his own life in the process. His faithful retainer, Unitante, had a small tomb constructed on the Plains, in the side of a low hill, where his body could rest for eternity. Unitante died in poverty, although he spent many years searching for his dead master’s home, the Tower of Charrel Fane.
• The Amazon Warrior – A new character class, featuring ferocious female fighters! (Dirk Collins)
  • The mythical, mysterious, savage, cunning female warriors of clans and tribes make up the bulk of Amazon warriors.
• Street of A Thousand Adventures – Sample the brew at Shevedik’s House of Elixirs. (Richard Tongue)
  • Shevedik’s House of Elixirs has been a mainstay of the city for as long as anybody can remember. From the outside, it is an ungainly structure, a two-storey wooden building with all its windows on the upper floor covered by wood, instead of glass. The building is covered in scorch marks, as are the buildings on both sides, and the road itself. A sign, hanging on one peg only, reads ‘Shevedik’s House of Elixirs’.
• Al-Xaim – An OD&D Adventure for 3-5 PCs of levels 4-8. (James John Gregoire)
  • “Al-Xaim” is an OD&D expert adventure designed for 3-5 PCs of levels 4-8 (about 24 levels). Since the adventure takes place in the Emirates of Ylaruam, the identity of any magic-users or elves should be concealed or they face trail and execution. Clerics are venerated and accepted in the Emirates. All other classes and races are tolerated.

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