A Modicum of Self Control
by Ramanan Sivaranjan on July 30, 2012
There are so many old D&D modules out there that sound a little bit interesting. I decided to write out exactly what older D&D modules and books I want. The goal here was to stop myself from spending money like an idiot on anything and everything I might stumble upon, but also have enough books to buy that I can spend money like an idiot. I don’t consider myself a collector of D&D books, but there is certainly some aspect of collecting at play in my behaviour. I also have a (bad) habit of buying more books than I could possibly hope to read in a reasonable amount of time. I wanted to pick a small set of old books and then forget any others exist.
In the end I decided to look for the following books:
- D&D Basic Edition
- D&D Expert Edition
- B1 - In Search of the Unknown
- B2 - Keep on the Borderlands
- B4 - The Lost City
- T1 - Village of Hommlet
- I1 - Dwellers of the Forbidden City
- D1,2 - Descent into the Depths of the Earth
- D3 - Vault of the Drow
- X1 - Isle of Dread
- X2 - Castle Amber
I’ve picked up a few of these books already, finding them used on eBay and Amazon. I have a question for you: have I missed any obviously amazing D&D or AD&D 1e books?1
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I have no interest whatsoever in anything from 3rd Edition. There is a part of me that wants to buy up all the 2nd Edition Dark Sun books, but for now that’s not something I plan to do. ↩
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