jdcllns wrote:I'm glad I found this thread. It answers many of my questions about the differences between the AEC and 1e.
Boy this is an old thread, but I will respond to you with something I say all of the time about this subject...
LL with the AEC is pretty much the exact way we played AD&D back in the day. We had a Moldvay Basic D&D box set and then could finally afford the hard cover AD&D books. After looking at these huge volumes of rules, we just looked at each other and said, "we already know how to play Dungeons & Dragons...let's just use the monsters, spells, classes, and races from AD&D and just play". You know what? It played just fine. These two rule books accomplish that in a neat little package.