Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Anthony Huso's Guide to AD&D 1e (Unofficial Compilation)

 

This has recently arrived on the mail. 

On March 2024 Lucas M. compiled and edited a series of blog posts by Antony Huso, designed to introduce you to vintage AD&D and teach you how to play it more or less by the book.

The book is 134 pages long and covers several topics of the game: "Running Your First AD&D Campaign", "DMing & 1e Philosophy", "Combat, Standard & Armed", "Combat, Unarmed & Avoiding", "Combat, Special", "Magic", "Psionics", "Leveling Up, XP, Training", "High Level Play" and "Other Fun House Rules". It also features two appendix at the end, "A: How Much Treasure?" and "B: Bards".

On the first page we read: "Webpage links and dates of publication are included at the beginning of each section. For the sake of clarify, titles of some posts have been changed and sub-headings added; a blog post has been divided and included in different sections. The webpage links often include the original title of the blog posts, so look there if you need to identify them." which may be useful, but some original posts might be unavailable.

I ordered this because we are getting ready to play Huso's mega dungeon "Castle of the Silver Prince" and want to do it as close as "Gary intended" as possible. When Aron Clark, the group's DM, threw the idea everyone jumped on board right away. I've always been an AD&D 1e fan but doesn't run my game RAW, though I play on a game run by Allan T. Grohe, Jr. (grodog) that closely does it. This will be another chance to delve into the 

You can order your POD copy from Lulu here for only $8.57 on paperback. 



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