2D8HP
2016-04-01, 12:16 PM
Recently I have been buying all the Wotc & some third party 5e D&D books I can find after a very long hiatus from D&D and RPG's in general. I started RPG'ing around 1978 with the Bluebook/Basic D&D box that had the "In Search of the Unknown" module included, (while I can't remember if the PHB was out, the Monster Manual was already out, but the DMG wasn't). My circle drifted to other RPG's in the 1980's and by the early 1990's it seemed that the only RPG's anyone in my area would play were "Cyberpunk" and "Vampire", which just weren't to my taste, mostly ending the hobby for me.
Early on I had all the D&D/AD&D materials I could get my hands on (including "Chainmail" and "Empire of the Petal Throne") but 1985's "Unearthed Arcana" I did not get (just seemed like too many cumbersome changes), and since I already had OD&D and the earlier "basic" set I did not get the 1981 and later basic/BECMI materials, and I completely skipped 2e.
I did get alot of 3e books, some 3.5, but no 4e material (in fact while I still get most of the earlier fantasy fiction and Monty Python references in this forum the Anime and computer game stuff largely goes over my head and reminds me of my age, so yeah if you live long enough time travel is real)).
Of non D&D RPG's the ones that most interested me (but didn't get to play) were:
1. Pendragon,
2. Castle Falkenstein,
3. Space 1889, and
4. GURPS "Swashbucklers".
I have little patience with reading non character creation rules (combat rules especially bore me), I read RPG books mostly for setting information.
My tastes seem to run more towards mundane (at first) characters in Fantasy world's rather then super heroes or supernatural characters in modern settings.
Since there is about 20 years of RPG material I largely missed, what should I go back and get?
Early on I had all the D&D/AD&D materials I could get my hands on (including "Chainmail" and "Empire of the Petal Throne") but 1985's "Unearthed Arcana" I did not get (just seemed like too many cumbersome changes), and since I already had OD&D and the earlier "basic" set I did not get the 1981 and later basic/BECMI materials, and I completely skipped 2e.
I did get alot of 3e books, some 3.5, but no 4e material (in fact while I still get most of the earlier fantasy fiction and Monty Python references in this forum the Anime and computer game stuff largely goes over my head and reminds me of my age, so yeah if you live long enough time travel is real)).
Of non D&D RPG's the ones that most interested me (but didn't get to play) were:
1. Pendragon,
2. Castle Falkenstein,
3. Space 1889, and
4. GURPS "Swashbucklers".
I have little patience with reading non character creation rules (combat rules especially bore me), I read RPG books mostly for setting information.
My tastes seem to run more towards mundane (at first) characters in Fantasy world's rather then super heroes or supernatural characters in modern settings.
Since there is about 20 years of RPG material I largely missed, what should I go back and get?