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jasmith wrote:After a year and a half in the OSR, all of my various Rule Books have become Collections of Rulings, from which to put together my houseruled version of the game. The backbone is based on LL, though.

From your avatar, I'd guess you're a MetalDM (tm).

Brad wrote:

jasmith wrote:After a year and a half in the OSR, all of my various Rule Books have become Collections of Rulings, from which to put together my houseruled version of the game. The backbone is based on LL, though.

From your avatar, I'd guess you're a MetalDM (tm).

Not sure exactly what you mean by that. I do like AC/DC.

I like LL and OSRIC. My only "real" issues with OSRIC are the lack of treasure types and not having all the monsters in alphabetical order.

I'm glad I found this thread. It answers many of my questions about the differences between the AEC and 1e.

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.

Back in the day we played AD&D because those were the books you could talk your mom into ordering for you from the Sears catalog. Played it for years before we saw any "regular" D&D stuff in a book store.

Wizardawn, thanks for saying it again.

sorry if this is a newbie question but can someone clarify what all of the abbreviations mean?
LL- labyrinth lord i got but how about
AEC?
B/X?
OSRIC?
and all that vs just AD&D?

DEMOn1n3 wrote:sorry if this is a newbie question but can someone clarify what all of the abbreviations mean?
LL- labyrinth lord i got but how about
AEC?
B/X?
OSRIC?
and all that vs just AD&D?

AEC is the next book for LL. Advanced Edition Companion
B/X is Basic & Expert - the old 80's Red & Blue books
OSRIC- Old School Reference and Index Compilation

Hope that helps.

so does AD&D encompass the basic and expert rules?

LL is very close to B/X. Basic & Expert are pretty simple rules and race is class. Advanced & AEC are more rules and options. You can be a Dwarf Cleric, Elf Thief, etc. Also more classes like Paladin & Monk.