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Friday, July 10, 2020

OD&D rule book set completed

I've been wanting to complete my OD&D rules set for awhile and I received the last one in the mail last week. No rares in my set, and the majority of them are in the fair to good range if they were to be classified. They have been numbered, some notes written in them, a few charts highlighted or underlined, in other words, they are the workhorses of rule books. Paged thru, argued over, well used and well loved since 1977 when the first of them was purchased.
I got the white box set ( box is gone) in 1977, and then thru trades, gifts and saving up spending money I  managed to pick up supplements I thru IV in a couple of years. 


I know Swords and Spells isn't technically a supplement for OD&D, but me and the guys I gamed with it considered it Supplement V and if you said you had all the books ( a huge status symbol to own all of them), then you better be able to produce "Supplement V" too. 


I've searched off and on for Swords and Spells for years, but the pricing was always way too inflated, especially since the book is for use, and not a collection. Last week I picked it up on ebay for a sensible price and now I can cross that off the list and move on to Chainmail. 
One guy in our group had Chainmail, but after reading thru it, most of us never implemented a lot of it - at the time is was more technical than we needed, and although it was present at most of the sessions, it was rarely referred too,yet it was the primary guide for the "house rules" we established for our play. I still would like to get a copy, so I'll keep looking and maybe get lucky. 

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