OD&D Resources

Where to obtain Original D&D (OD&D) and Holmes Basic rulesets?

OD&D

• Official Materials - Note that not everyone plays with Chainmail, the Supplements or Swords & Spells.
  • Chainmail
  • Dungeons & Dragons (3 Little Brown Books)
  • Supplement 1 - Greyhawk
  • Supplement 2 - Blackmoor
  • Supplement 3 - Eldritch Wizardry
  • Supplement 4 - Gods, Demi-gods & Heros
  • Swords & Spells - More Wargame rules
  • 3rd Party Companion Booklets - highly recommended to check out The Compleat Chainmail Combat System.
  • Original Edition Delta Supplements
  • Book of War Skirmish Rules Supplement
  • How to print the OD&D booklets
  • Philotimy's OD&D Musings - Very useful!
• Retro-clones
• Swords & Wizardry - Note that this comes in many versions, including Whitebox, Core, Complete, and now the Whitebox Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game - Free PDFs - Print - OD&D vs S&W
• Delving Deeper - Explanation of differences from Swords & Wizardry - Print or Hypertext

Holmes

• Official Materials
• For some reason WotC has not released the Holmes Edition of D&D on dmsguild.com like other D&D books.
• Retro-clones - Note that the combat system used is usually not based on Chainmail.
• Blueholmes - probably the most popular Holmes era retro-clone. A free version of the basic rules can be obtained from drivethrurpg.com.
• Holmes '77 - a straight - no frills - retro-clone.

OD&D Derivatives

• Empire of the Petal Throne - Produced by TSR in 1975, it is a direct descendant of D&D and Blackmoor rules. It is neat to see how they modified the OD&D ruleset for their own use.
• Warlock
• Tunnels & Trolls
• Arduin Grimoire Trilogy - PDF's - Print Books

Magazines

• OD&D Related
• Best of Dragon Magazine Volume 1 - This is the best OD&D articles of Strategic Review, and Dragon Vol 1 & 2. Lots of great stuff here.
• Alarums & Excursions - still in print!

Blogs

• Playing at the World - D&D history and interesting documents related to OD&D
• Zenopus Archives - interesting content related to Holmes D&D and OD&D
• Grognardia - older players perspective on D&D
• The Alexandrian - Reactions to OD&D
• Save or Die
• Martin Ralya - Interesting articles related to OD&D
• Old School FRP
• Alkoremmi
• Semper Initaitivus Unum - Interesting thoughts on OD&D
• Blog of Holding - Series of articles playing with Mike Mornard
• Donjon Lands - "OD&D's Recommended Equipment"
• Howling Tower
• Smoldering Wizard

Videos

• Gary Con
• Chainmail 50th Anniversary
• Experimental Gameology
• How to play Chainmail (Playlist)
• How to play OD&D using Chainmail (Playlist)
• Purple Druid
• Chainmail Battles
• Jon's D&D Vlog
• Vlog #5 - OD&D
•  Vlog #33 - Chainmail - Part 1
•  Vlog #34 - Chainmail - Part 2
•  Vlog #35 - Chainmail - Part 3
• Outdoor Survival
• RPG Crawler
• Dungeons & Dragons Retrospective (Playlist)
• Rules Explained
• Chainmail (Playlist)
• Wandering DM's
• 50 Years of Chainmail | More Medieval Miniatures
• Dungeon Craft
• The Gygax Code: Gary's SECRET Rules for D&D
• Bandits Keep Actual Play
• Crypts of Indormancy OD&D with Chainmail - Actual Play Campaign Session 1
• Crypts of Indormancy OD&D with Chainmail - Actual Play Campaign Session 2
• Crypts of Indormancy OD&D with Chainmail - Actual Play Campaign Session 3
• Bandits Keep
• OD&D with Chainmail
• The Joy of Wargaming
• Chainmail

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Movies

• Secrets of Blackmoor Documentary

Forums

• OD&D '74 Forums

Other Webpages

• DragonDex - list of all Dragon magazine articles and the game system they are associated to, great way to find OD&D articles!
• Acaeum - This site is aimed at collectors, but has lots of great information such as product changes between printings.