When I was first considering starting up a new game, I thought I was going to round up some old friends that have been active RPG players that hadn't played using any of the old rulesets recently. The intention was to use OSRIC with some house rules and play some of the old TSR modules. It now looks like my girlfriend and some of her friends are interested in playing, which changes everything. From what I can tell they have never played D&D or any other tabletop RPG.
With all new players I've decided I'm going to have to use a more basic set of rules. I'm probably going to use a heavily house ruled version of LL or B/X. More importantly I'm going to have to decide upon a new adventure to run. Originally I was going to run Caverns of Thracia. For veteran players it seemed like a good challenge and a wonderful, classic dungeon that they probably were not familiar with. However, after read several play reports online I realized just how deadly this module is, and I think I am going to need something a little easier for completely new players. Currently I'm leaning towards B2 or B1, with the possibility of T1 as I've been playing the computer version of that recently, so I'm more familiar with it. I'm still going to stick to the OSR guns with this group, there will certainly be some deaths, but I don't want to totally steamroll them with a difficult 1st level adventure.
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