Tag: AD&D

Ravenloft: Forbidden Lore (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Page Count: 288 Cost: $9.99 (Originally $25) Release Date: 03/11/2014 (Originally 1992) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com I’m really glad to see Forbidden Lore up on DNDclassics.com, as I wasn’t sure how they were going to pull this off. You…

Spelljammer: Adventures in Space (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Page Count: 248 Pages across two books Cost: $9.99 Release Date: 03/04/2014 (Originally 1989) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com Wow. I can’t express how happy I am to have the Spelljammer: Adventures in Space boxed set once again available to the…

Birthright: Player’s Secrets of Tuarhieveln (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Cost: $4.99 (Originally $7.95 Page Count: 39 Release Date: 02/18/2014 (Originally 1996) Get it here: DriveThruRPG.com If there’s one thing you can say about Second Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with absolutely certainty, it is that this…

Ravenloft: Van Richten’s Guide to Vampires (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Cost: $9.99(Originally $10.95) Page Count: 99 Release Date: 11/19/2013 (Originally 1991) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com Van Richten’s Guide to Vampires is not only my favorite supplement for Ravenloft, but it just might be my favorite for…

Ravenloft: Darklords (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Cost: $9.99 (Originally $10.95) Page Count: 98 Release Date: 11/12/2013 (Originally 1991) Get it Here: DNDCLassics.com As you can tell from the RR1 coding, Darklords was the first supplement release for TSR’s Ravenloft campaign setting. There had been an adventure…

Ravenloft: Web of Illusion (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Cost: $4.95 (Originally $9.95) Page Count: 67 Release Date: 10/01/2013 (Originally 1993) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com Web of Illusion is one of those odd Ravenloft adventures that neither fits the mood nor theme of the campaign setting, and…

Howls in the Night (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Cost: $4.95 (Original Physical Copy was $6.95) Page Count: 32 Release Date: 10/08/2013 (Originally 1994) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com It’s October and what better time for DNDCLassics.com to FINALLY start re-releasing some more Ravenloft adventures than in the…

Ravenloft: Dark of the Moon (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Cost: $4.95 (Original Physical Copy: $9.95) Page Count: 64 Release Date: 10/08/2013 (Originally 1993) Get it Here: DriveThruRPG.Com As I’ve said in the past, a good rule of thumb for whether or not a Ravenloft adventure is…

Deities & Demigods (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, First Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Page Count: 128 Cost: $9.99 Release Date: 01/17/2013 (Originally 8/15/1980) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com The Deities and Demigods book has been a mainstay of the D&D world for a long time – most people who played D&D during the…

Ravenloft: Monstrous Compendium Appendix III: Creatures of Darkness (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Page Count: 126 Cost: $9.99 Release Date: (Originally 1994) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com I’m of the personal opinion that each Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix is a bit weaker than the one that came before…

Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendices I & II (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Page Count: 130 Cost: $9.99 (Originally $20) Release Date: 06/04/2013 (Originally 1991 and 1993 Get it Here:DNDCLassics.com Ravenloft was the campaign setting that sucked me into Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and the first Monstrous Compendium…

Revisiting the AD&D 2nd Edition Boxed Set of the fabled Drow City

Arms and Equipment Guide (AD&D 2e) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Page Count: 128 Release Date: 1991 (Book), 04/23/2013 (PDF) Cost: $9.99 (PDF) Where to get it: DrivethruRPG.com I can’t think of any other book that has shaped my perception of the weapons and armor used in various medieval-esque fantasy games than the…

Greyhawk Adventures: Vecna Lives! (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition) Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Page Count: 98 Cost: $9.99 Release Date: 05/21/2013 (Originally January 1991) Get it Here: DNDClassics.com Unlike most AD&D gamers of my generation, I wasn’t that into Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance. I preferred Ravenloft and Greyhawk (and later, Planescape).…

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition Monstrous Manual Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Page Count: 384 Cost: $49.99 ($32.10 on Amazon.com) Release Date: 05/21/2013 Get it Here:Amazon.com In my reviews of the Player’s Handbook and Dungeon Master Guide, I’ve made mention of the two different versions of Second Edition, you have the original…

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition Dungeon Master Guide Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (Originally TSR) Page Count: 256 Cost: $49.99 ($32.01 at Amazon.com) Release Date: 05/21/2013 Get it Here:Amazon.com Yesterday we looked at Wizard of the Coast’s premium reprint of the Second Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player’s Handbook. Today it’s the Dungeon Master…

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition Players Handbook Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Page Count: 319 Cost: $49.99 ($32.40 on Amazon.com) Release Date: 05/21/2013 Get it Here:Amazon.com I remember saving up for the original 1989 edition of Second Edition AD&D. A whopping twenty dollars, and it was worth it. Amazing artwork, redone rules (Thank Cthulhu…

Dungeons of Dread: S Series Classic Adventure Compilation(Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Page Count: 192 Cost: $39.99 ($25.64 at Amazon.com Release Date: 3/19/2013 Get it Here: Amazon.com Within the pages of this beautiful faux leather hardcover book lie four of the most famous adventures in all of tabletop gaming. Even if…