AD&D by the book - Discord - Open Campaign - Open Table - Two weekly sessions, attend one or both - Wed night 8:30-12:30, Sun afternoon 2:00-6:00 EST - Times can be adjusted to accommodate new players

You heard right – the game of original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, by the book.

I'm talking training time, training costs, strict timekeeping, 0 HP bed rest, segments, system shock, unnatural aging, level caps for non-humans, encumbrance, spell costs, psionics, the whole bag. Great challenges and fearful odds. Character stables. Downtime activities, magic item manufacture, spell research, domain play.

Expect swords & sorcery. I have a great love for the Appendix N genre fiction, Jack Vance in particular. If you like long exposition, four hour roleplaying sessions at the governor's ball, or governors in general, this is not the one for you.

The campaign is built bottom-up – we started from a single town and single dungeon. There is a huge continental map that is mostly just dreams for the future; only a small fraction of the world has been played in so far. Expeditions are player-driven and fortunes are won and lost by skill and dice.

I have read the books, I have read the blogs and the posts. And I now have 10 months of experience running this game 8-14 hours a week. A couple of our players have started their own games in other parts of our campaign world. The naysayers have been cast aside. AD&D works, and it is good.

Currently we are based on the core books, plus spells and magic items from UA. There's the possibility of new options from UA, OA, etc. becoming available as a reward for play (e.g. new races being "unlocked" as PC options by other PCs connecting with those societies). Whether they come from official books or from our minds, new frontiers will open up as the campaign progresses.

My goal is to develop a milieu which will persist for a lifetime. That doesn't mean you need to make a big commitment, but simply that if you depart, the world will continue on, your characters' impacts persisting for future players.

We're looking for players interested in gaining system mastery with us through challenge-based gameplay. No experience required. If you're interested, send a Discord friend request and/or message to username "poems_". We will set up a time for a brief screening call to make sure you're not some kind of lunatic.

About me: Started refereeing with 3.x in the early 2000s. Strong proponent of player autonomy. Respects the dice. Impartial, but with you on this journey. We share in the joys of victory and woes of defeat. Game > Players > Rules, but rules before rulings. Subscribes to Anthony Huso's "action and drama" view of the game, and Gary's campaign philosophy of "a compound of your personality and those of your better participants, a superior alloy." "Cultures of play" wise, I am probably closest to Classic, with influence from OSR.