DavidBV
2021-03-18, 07:16 AM
I was reading my "D&D Rules Cyclopedia" (1991), and on page 291 it covers conversion rules to AD&D. What caught my attention was an illustration from Terry Dykstra in this page, in which a party of adventurers battles their "opposites" from the other edition!
I am unsure if posting here a picture of the page or the drawing in question would be against the forum rules due to copyright... but I prefer to err on the caution side and not posting it.
With Rich being a D&D veteran I wonder if this image could have somehow inspired the story. Of course it's a mere possibility, but who knows.
For those unaware of what Rules Cyclopedia is and why would one need to convert it to AD&D: original D&D followed two separate development branches between 1977 and the early 90s. In parallel to AD&D 1e and 2e, there was the Basic Set which was updated with an Expert Set (together called B/X system) and eventually Companion, Master and Immortal Sets (BECMI D&D). B/X or BECMI was more succesful than AD&D up to the mid 80s, and both rulesets coexisted for a long time. Rules Cyclopedia was a neat compilation of most of the BECMI, but AD&D was already picking a lot of pace and BECMI was about to be abandoned by TSR.
I am unsure if posting here a picture of the page or the drawing in question would be against the forum rules due to copyright... but I prefer to err on the caution side and not posting it.
With Rich being a D&D veteran I wonder if this image could have somehow inspired the story. Of course it's a mere possibility, but who knows.
For those unaware of what Rules Cyclopedia is and why would one need to convert it to AD&D: original D&D followed two separate development branches between 1977 and the early 90s. In parallel to AD&D 1e and 2e, there was the Basic Set which was updated with an Expert Set (together called B/X system) and eventually Companion, Master and Immortal Sets (BECMI D&D). B/X or BECMI was more succesful than AD&D up to the mid 80s, and both rulesets coexisted for a long time. Rules Cyclopedia was a neat compilation of most of the BECMI, but AD&D was already picking a lot of pace and BECMI was about to be abandoned by TSR.