So, a little history. I first met Joe Bloch in person at the release party for Gygax Magazine Issue #1 at the Brooklyn Strat in January of 2013. Sure, I had known Joe via our respective blogs prior to that, but safe to say Joe has been a friend for over a decade.
Adventures Dark and Deep™ Lite is Joe's latest release. Essentially a streamlined version of Adventures Dark and Deep™ Core, which is a clone and expansion of AD&D 1e. Adventures Dark and Deep™ Lite is $9.95 in PDF.
As an aside, I was a guest on Joe's launch party livestream earlier today (link below)
Adventures Dark and Deep™ started off as an attempt to make the game Gary wanted to make, but couldn't because he left TSR in the mid-1980's. Based on the first edition of the world's most popular RPG, it added all sorts of new material, reorganized things, and streamlined some places where the rules needed it. Since it was originally published, Adventures Dark and Deep has grown, and had supplements and additions to add to the variety of options available to the players.
The current book, Adventures Dark and Deep™ Lite, goes in a different direction, paring down all of the material into a sleek 175 page book. There are only the five core character classes (bard, cleric, fighter, magic-user, and thief), only five character races (dwarf, elf, half-elf, halfling, and human), and characters can only go as high as 8th level. There are around 200 monsters in the book, and enough magic items to excite the greed of your players!
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