So You Want to Learn AD&D?

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You've come to the right place.  I have a series of blog posts designed to introduce you to vintage AD&D and teach you how to play it more or less by the book.

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Here are the links:

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• Handling Character Death

(Philosophical Introduction to the Game)

• Teaching Old Dogs Old Tricks

(How I Convinced Modern Players to Go Old School)

• Rules over Rulings: Consistency in DMing

(Why Rules Are Your Friends)

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• The Way We Really Play, Really: Movement on the Board

(Intro to AD&D Miniature Movement in the Modern Age)

• Combat Part I: We Don't Need Segments...Unless They're Awesome.

(Core Rules of Combat, part 1)

• Combat Part II: Surprise! You're Dead.

(Core Rules of Combat, part 2)

• Combat Part III: Weapon Speed Factor Sucks and Other Myths.

(Core Rules of Combat, part 3)

• A Deck of Many Things: Using AD&D's Mixed Bag of Rules and Loving Them.

(Obscure Rules With Value: System Shock, Level Cap, Crushing Blows, Spell Costs, Zero HP Bedrest & More!)

• Psionics: The Way No One Ever Played Them

(How to Use Psionics in a Non-Terrible Way)

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• Zargon is OSR & the Hard-to-Come-By Art of Old School DMing

(Old School DM Theory & Philosophy)

• Learning to DM by Playing a Character RIGHT.

(Old School Player Theory & Philosophy)​

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• High Level Play Part 1: Theory

(Theory on running High-Level AD&D games)​

• High Level Play Part 2: Mechanics

(Mechanics to keep High-Level games on track)​

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• AD&D Magic System Part 1: Gods

(Hows and whys of clerics, demons & deities)

• AD&D Magic System Part 2: MFG

(How to handle magic item manufacture​)

• AD&D Magic System Part 3: Spell Research

(Researching Existing & New Spells)​

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• AD&D Aerial Combat

(How to do it by the book)​