It's the subtlety of the unconscious racism in that gets you. I'm running an OSR-style game for the kids and to keep things lively for me I am a big fan of the Random Encounter Tables (RET). Whenever the kids aren't in an adventure area with a RET I pull out the big honkin' RET in the 1E DMG (or the Fiend Folio when they are in the dimensionally warped Lost Lands). The geography of the setting is the Caribbean, because I like the island hopping potential.

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#DnD #OSR #ADnD1E #GamingWithKids

"Tucker's Kobolds" from 1987 is about giving weak #dnd monsters (honestly) excessive tricks including traps. It's a meme now, picked up on YouTube.

Looking through editions, there are zero references to kobolds using traps before it. #odnd just says they are weaker than goblins, basically the crappest humanoid. #adnd1e has them just fighting. #bxdnd says they "ambush". All before 1987. But #adnd2e (1989) has heavy reference to traps for them. TSR eating their own memes.

https://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/TuckersKobolds.pdf

Have been noodling on my next #ttrpg adventure for my table. Working title is "Slime Gauntlet."

#osr #dnd #adnd1e

Every 5 years I get it in my head to run #ADnD2e and use some of my favorite material from the time.

Then I start rereading the rules and I realize that (like alot of folks) we just skimmed the rules, assumed we got it, and basically played #ADnD1e with 2e bits.

This is followed by an internal debate over running 1e, 2e, a retroclone, or BX with one of the Advanced Edition books for LL or OSE.

This continues until i never run the game, rinse repeat...