Starting a journey into AD&D,

So, throughout the last few weeks there has been one phrase ive heard repeated again and again, "One D&D" this phrase has seeped into my subconscious and piled up into my mind until this memetic programming triggered some repressed desire, it's so obvious "One D&D, D&D One D&D 1st edition, FUCK IT I SHOULD RUN AD&D" so grabbing my copy of OSRIC and started reading, in short it's really not that bad, I started with the combat segment system as I know this would be the hardest part to learn, but it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, hell I think it could be made easier with some tools or visualisation aid of some kind (could be a future blog post).

One of the things i find most appealing about AD&D is the subsystems form managing hirelings' mercenaries and experts to arial manoeuvring it's got a lot of depth that doesn't bog down the core gameplay as well as providing emergent game play.

Another aspect I'm interested in looking into is the "implied setting" a sort of inherent world assumption written into the AD&D rules, with lots of information on the monsters that dwell within this weird Swords and Sorcery world (including how good they are at tunnelling i.e. how well they can make or modify caves and dungeons for habitation) this implied setting is also reflected in what marital is suggested in the Appendix N: list of inspirational reading, which is mostly Swords and Sorcery and other weird fiction (such as the complete works of H.P. Love craft) definitely worth immersing yourself in these story's to understand this particular style of fantasy.

I'll be occasionally trying to make some AD&D related posts in the future, probably looking at some of the sub systems like psionics or arial agility and seeing how it works, if there's any questions about AD&D or something AD&D related let me know and I'll try to write something on it.