Keith the Thief wrote:Well, with 960 members, we're not really close to a statistically significant sample size yet.

I think we'd need about 90 votes to have +/- 10% confidence level, but things are definitely trending toward a tie between Greyhawk and Blackmoor.

Keith

Not enough votes??? (ELDRITCH) Hmmph. (ELDRITCH) Time to employ bandit country voting tactics (ELDRITCH) ... the dead walk (ELDRITCH)... vote early vote often ... (ELDRITCH) ... (WIZARDRY)

As a totally unbiased member. Please vote ... let's make it count ...

vote for any supplement you please
(ELDRITCH .. coz you know you want to)

Go on, go on, go on as Mrs Doyle would say: you know you want to

PS we know who you are and where you live  

Keith the Thief wrote:
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

Oh believe it, also I took full advantage of those same rules; hence my preference for the thief. If played well and not too harshly treated by die rolls, a decent thief can be quite a force.

And yes, your nickname was the reason I noted my own preference for sneeking and hiding and such.

With 46 votes we're more than halfway there.

Greyhawk is starting to pull into the lead.

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

ShaneG.

Agreed!  

Calling all Blackmoorianlanders!  

Come on, frog-lovers!

Roc [sic] the Vote!

i always liked blackmoor

DungeonDelver wrote:I dunno; after reading Tim Kask's dissertation on how Blackmoor got written, it's a tough call!

Do you have a link?  I'd like to read it.

Thanks,
Keith

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

Great article! You know, with a little editing, this article would make a great chapter in the history of D&D.

Cheers!

The Frogs are doing their job

ShaneG.

Keith the Thief wrote:I think the DA-series was my favorite to DM, although the A-series comes in a close second.

I'll tell you what got me as far as the DA-series goes.  I bought DA1 - Adventures in Blackmoor because of the really weird war machine-thing depicted on the cover (it was shrinkwrapped at KayBee toys, and I was all of 11 I think, so looks were everything).  At the same time, I also bought DA3 - City of the Gods, X6 - Quagmire and CM4 - Earthshaker!  Mom let me get all four of them because they were on clearance 2/$5 (how on earth do I remember this, but I can't remember where I put down my can of Dr Pepper an hour ago??).  As an 11-12 year old, Earthshaker and City of the Gods really hit the top of my list as far as fun reading went.  Quagmire was OK, but I really didn't know what to think of Adventures in Blackmoor.  I mean...it was just...an Inn.  With some time travel stuff thrown in.  And I couldn't find that neat war machine anywhere inside.  So I put that one aside.

A couple years later, I was looking through my collection, saw it, and pulled it out again to read.  And man, I was blown away.  To an 11-year old, the Comeback Inn wasn't nearly as cool as a huge steam-and-coal-driven giant.  To the fourteen year-old who re-opened that book, though, the Comeback Inn became one of the COOLEST things I had ever seen.  Hepath Nun's suicide note alone was worth the price of admission - that's got to be one of the top 10 best monologues I've ever read, and I even memorized it and delivered it for my Speech class my sophomore year.

So yeah...Blackmoor rocks my world, and DA-1 sits as one of my favorite modules of all time.  I've yet to see anything from 3E that comes close to that level of writing and immersion.

- Michael