Real Dungeons and Dragons

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, so the original 1st edition D&D was more like beta D&D or D&D 0.5 or something, because it was a brand new game no one had ever played before, and also no one had any idea how popular it would be:


The first "real D&D" to most players was "Basic D&D" (in early 1977) and "Advanced D&D" (in late 1977).

So, you're technically correct that the first edition of D&D ever was weird and (I guess?) only had 3 classes, but all that was sorted within 3 years. For the 20+ years after (1977-1999) every edition had more than 3 classes, clerics used Wisdom, wizards used Intelligence, etc.

And again, 2nd Edition came out in 1989, so that was the "current edition" for DikuMUD/EQ devs (3E wouldn't come out until 2000).

well what I said was that it wasnt until 1989 that it was formated to be 4 classes which is what EQ was based off of which is what I find interesting. Being the end of the generation of D&D and carrying the torch is also pretty cool.

[Jimjam]

Playing the Norrath RPG inside Everquest would be deliciously meta!

If not a dnd flavour system to use in game, how about something with a more ‘futuristic’ setting?

Would be interesting to play eq characters which them selves are RPing a 19th+ century setting game.