Aneoth wrote:BTW: The Thief is My own personal favorite class PC to role play.

Mine too, hence my nickname.  I was primarily a DM, but when I did play, I used some variant of the same thief character each campaign.

You're right about the illogic of reading scrolls, etc, but I think that's one of the thing I liked about that class and about OD&D/1E in general ... the fact that not everything made sense.

Keith

If only Mayor Daley (Sr.) of Chicago were here to help with the vote count.

Aneoth wrote:... my own preference for sneeking and hiding and such.

I enjoyed moving silently and hiding in shadows, of course, but I think my favorite aspect of the class was picking pockets.  Not only was it fun to walk down a city street and snag a gold piece from each victim (which adds up in a hurry), but it was also a hell of a lot of fun to put stuff into people's pockets ... nothing quite like the joy of putting a poison dart into some royal family NPC's waistcoat and sitting back to watch the fun ...

Keith

Nooooooo..come on Blackmoor!!!
Sends out hordes of Frogs to persuade the non-voters.

ShaneG.

- Sends out hordes of Frogs to persuade the non-voters.
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I dunno; after reading Tim Kask's dissertation on how Blackmoor got written, it's a tough call!

With 52 of the members reporting, Greyhawk and Blackmoor are locked in a dead dead for first place, but don't count out Eldritch Wizardry just yet.

We still need at least 38 more votes to have a good sample.

(Vote, frog-lovers, vote!)

stumbling tiger wrote:Here's the link to Tim Kask's account of Blackmoor.  Start at "The Basket; or, You want me to make what of that?"
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewt ... &start=225

That was a really enlightening post from Tim Kask.  It makes me wonder how much material was in that apple basket that could've/should've made its way into D&D but could not be due to the overwhelming disorganization.  Also interesting to note that Kask devised the psionic combat rules, evidently based on a comic book concept (I've never read comics, and I don't care for psionics either ... but I digress).

Interesting too that Gygax does not discuss the collective effort of the supplement's creation in his forward.  Arneson gives "special thanks" to Kask and others on the title page, but given Mr. Kask's description of the events, it seems like Gygax would've acknowledged that it was indeed a group effort.  I think this could've been done without diminishing Arneson's major contribution to the work.

This doesn't change my mind about Blackmoor being my personal favorite, but it does change the way I look at Eldritch Wizardry.

Thanks,
Keith

My vote has to go to Blackmoor.  Sorry, sorry, I like Eldritch Wizardry as much as the next guy but the Temple of the Frog pretty much secured it for me.  And as the DA-series of modules were some of my favorite both to read and play, this just clinches it.

One more for Blackmoor.

- Michael