Old School Dungeons & Dragons: Part 35

Time for the latest compilation of old school Dungeons & Dragons threads; all of the compilations can be found in my Dungeons & Dragons blog tag. I’ve been more in a mood to do these posts on Bluesky, so this post came pretty quickly after the last one. Fantastic Personalities (1981), by Bill Paley and Edward R.G. Mortimer. Back in the day, there were a lot more gaming supplements focusing on teaching inexperienced people how to play the game better! Judges’ Guild was the second best RPG publisher back in the early days of D&D, and they published adventures, campaign settings, and gaming supplements. Fantastic Personalities is a collection of 85 non-player characters to be used to spice up any campaign! Let’s look at a few… First we have a female monk, worshipper of the Egyptian god Thoth, on a quest to deliver a book to a temple. She avoids killing intelligent beings except for hobgoblins, who killed her father. One of the quirkiest comes up in the book early: Lola Redstar, a woman…