Name your Top Ten OD&D resources

[Admin Pete]

Here's a list of my ten most important OD&D resources in my opinion:
1. OD&D - The three Little Brown Booklets
2. Supplement I: Greyhawk
3. Supplement II: Blackmoor
4. The First Fantasy Campaign
5. The Arduin Grimoire Trilogy
6. Adventures in Fantasy
7. Chainmail
8. Supplement III: Eldritch Wizardry
9. Best of the Dragon Volume 1
10. Ready Ref sheets

[captaincrumbcake]

1. LBBs (naturally!)
2. Greyhawk, supp. 1
3. Blackmoor, supp.2
4. BOtD,V1-2
5. Holmes
6. Caverns of Thracia/
Dark Tower
7. JG Wilderlands of High Fantasy
8. Thieves of Badabaskor
9. Some internet compadres (Fin, Zen, Geoff, Mike, etc. Can't list them all!)
0. My personal muse. (darn her! lol)

[makofan]

Here is what I actually use

- 3 brown books
- Greyhawk
- Ready Ref Sheets
- Petty Gods
- City State of the Invincible Overlord
- Monster & Treasure Assortments
- Mines of Khunmar
- Modules B 1-4
- Treasure by Courtney Campbell
- Tricks, etc by Courtney Campbell

[hedgehobbit]

Here are mine. Listed from least to most important:

10 ) Hackmaster Hacklopedia of Beasts
9) First Fantasy Campaign
8) VanGrasstek's Game of Dungeon
7) Monster & Treasure Assortments
6) Ready Ref Sheets
5) Runequest
4) B/X
3) Dungeon!
2) OD&D Rulebooks (not the supplements)
1) Empire of the Petal Throne

[monk]

Oh, I'm a sucker for these kinda threads...
(I'm interpreting "resources" as anything you use often to draw ideas for content.)

3 LBBs
Moldvay Basic
Erol Otus artwork
Fiend Folio
The Dungeoneer issues 1-6
Caverns of Thracia
Ready Ref
OEPT rulebook
Fomalhaut
Carcosa

Some of these I return to for inspiration, others as an example of presentation or organization.

[robkuntz]

Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition

Books on Physical Geography

Information sources on extra-terrestrail environments (like the studies of the planet Titan, etc.)

Myth, legend and folklore texts

Real life juxtapositions

and so forth...

[finarvyn]

From my similar thread on OD&D Discussion:

Nov 23, 2015 6:46:30 GMT -5 finarvyn said:

Here's a list of my ten most important OD&D resources in my opinion, ranked mostly in order but not totally. (My order changes somewhat depending upon my mood)
1. Core white box
2. Greyhawk supplement -- thief and paladin, expanded spell list, expanded magic list
3. First Fantasy Campaign -- inspiration, examples of early campaign design
4. Best of the Dragon, V1 -- classic articles from Dragon and SR, inspiration, ranger
5. Ready Ref sheets -- random tables for random reasons
6. Blackmoor supplement -- assassin and monk, example of early module design
7. City-State of the Invincible Overlord -- this is my go-to city for every campaign
8. Chainmail -- mostly the Fantasy Supplement, historical and inspriational
9. Eldritch Wizardry supplement -- druid
10. Gods, Demigods & Heroes supplement -- material on Conan, Elric, etc.

Something like that. As I said, my order may vary occasionally. There are also a few other things that I sometimes use like the Monster & Treasure assortment, World of Greyhawk folio (AD&D), monochrome AD&D modules, AD&D Monster Manual (pre-AD&D) hardback Arduin Trilogy, and the like.

[sepulchre]

1. Chainmail
2. Gygax's Classic Warfare
3. 3LBBs
4. AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide
5. AD&D Player's Handbook
6. AD&D Monster Manual
7. AD&D Deities and Demigods
8. World of Greyhawk Folio 1979 & Glossography 1983
9. D&D Modules: B1 In Search of the Unknown, B2 Keep on the Borderlands
10.AD&D Modules: A1-A4 Slavers modules, S1 The Tomb of Horrors

[Admin Pete]

Nov 28, 2015 4:03:15 GMT -5 robkuntz said:

Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition

Books on Physical Geography

Information sources on extra-terrestrail environments (like the studies of the planet Titan, etc.)

Myth, legend and folklore texts

Real life juxtapositions

and so forth...

I stole this topic from another board and the things on your list I tend to take for granted as "the unstated givens" that of course everyone uses. Your writing them down reminded me that that is not necessarily the case.