[Centaur] Role-Playing Games

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D)

I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons (now AD&D) from TSR since it was first printed (remember those first three, small rulebooks?). These days, I primarily play first edition AD&D, second edition, or a mish-mash of both -- always with a healthy dose of home-grown rules thrown in -- depending on who's GMing.

Other RPGs

I dislike putting such a strong emphasis on AD&D, but it is the primary RPG I play. However, I have been known to play other groovy games such as Traveller (the original one), RuneQuest (before Avalon Hill bought it), Champions, GURPs, and even a science-fiction game that a good friend wrote.

Bring Out Your Spells (etc.). . . .

In my geekier moments, I collect spells, magic items, and occasionally monsters, for use when running my own campaign. I haven't GMed more than a handful of times over the years, but I've come up with a new and (I think) different concept for a world, and am hoping to work on it seriously and eventually GM a group in it. Anyway, as far as magic items go, I'd like to go through all my favorite books (of which there are many) and create AD&D stats for all the magic items in them . . . and then sprinkle my campaign with them and see if anyone notices. Example: The Horn of Shambarimen from Philip Jose Farmer's World of Tiers series would be a great way to get the characters to a different world; the gates from the same series would be a less-powerful way of accomplishing the same thing. (Of course, they would be reworked to be magical, not scientific, implements.)

How To Find More

For a list of RPG resources, check out what Yahoo says is out there. (Yeah, I know it's lame to just link to Yahoo!. . . .)


I made a few changes here on February 10, 1999, but it's really hopelessly out-of-date, as well as woefully slim. If you have suggestions, comments, or criticisms for me, then please e-mail me at kendall.NUKE.THIS@his.com [remove the ".NUKE.THIS"].

This page is © Copyright February 10, 1999 Kendall P. Bullen.