Your Homebrew campaign has a prominent location for the Caves of Chaos and had to reworked to fit in the Village of Homlet.

You know you're an old school D&Der when your favorite sub-forum is near the bottom of the page.

You know you're an old school D&Der when you describe your character's action to the DM, the DM looks at you with a blank expression, tells you "Roll against skill/feat/power X" and you look back at the DM with a blank expression.

You know you're an old school D&Der when your character dies and you have another ready, from scratch, in under 5 minutes.

You know you're an old school D&Der when every single thing you need to play, including ALL rulebooks, dice, player sheets, notepads and pencils, fit into one standard-sized cigar box.

You know you're an old school D&Der when you run your original D&D at CoastCon, and people actually stop and oogle over your books.  Your entire '74 boxed edition that cost you about $10 bitd now go on e-bay for hundreds.

You know you're an old school D&Der when you think Lou Zocchi has the coolest booth at a convention.

You know you're an old school D&Der when your rulebooks are about as old as some of your players parents.

You know you're an old school D&Der when you have trouble finding players.   

SombreNote DM wrote on Jan 7^th, 2011 at 6:21pm:


So, you're saying you're not interested in joining my bi-weekly 1e game?

If the new shop ever opens, I will run a 1e game.

Red Priest wrote on Jan 17^th, 2011 at 3:41am:


Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or in Metairie is the only new store waiting to open that I am aware of.  If you're on facebook Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or .

Something like that.  They had originally planned a grand opening for September 2010, but it's been pushed back multiple times.  For whatever reason they decided to totally renovate a retail space instead of just moving into one, so they've hit a few snags inspection-wise.  However, the plans for the layout of the shop are online and they look frickin' sweet.

Last I heard, they planned to open early January, but that obviously didn't happen.  We'll see.

You know you are an old school D&Der when the numbers on your first set of dice had to be filled in with a white crayon.

jharris wrote on Jan 15^th, 2011 at 9:40pm:


Funny story, I used to play an ad&d game with some "old school" players.  We spent about as much time with them trying to figure out THAC0 as actual playing.  They also had a hard time figuring out BAB in 3rd/3.5.  The DM finally made a chart for these guys to figure it out.  They still had trouble.