Some of the AD&D items released around the start of the 2nd edition era (1989) are labeled as compatible with both 1st and 2nd edition AD&D. Most/all of these have the 2nd edition AD&D logo on the cover.

However, I know that at least one of these (specifically WG8 Gargoyle, which I own) is decidedly a 1st edition module -- and most assuredly *not* a 2nd edition module -- because of the various mechanical bits contained therein.

For those of you with the other transitional products, do you know which side of the 1st/2nd edition fence they fall on? Are any of them truly hybrids in the sense that the module speaks in terms of both 1st & 2nd edition mechanics and/or offers conversion advice?

Some of the particular ones I'm interested in are:
WG8 Fate of Istus
WG10 Child's Play
WG11 Puppets

I need to look at the list of 1989-ish Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance products. There may be some transitional ones there too.

Here are some items/serieses that were 'on the border'.

1050 Time of the Dragon, boxed set
9243 DLE1 In Search of Dragons
9244 DLE2 Dragon Magic
9245 DLE3 Dragon Keep
9262 FR8 Cities of Mystery
9238 FRC1 Ruins of Adventure
9239 FRC2 Curse of the Azure Bonds
9247 FRE1 Shadowdale
9248 FRE2 Tantras
9249 FRE3 Waterdeep
9253 WG8 Fate of Istus
9251 WG9 Gargoyle
9265 WG10 Child's Play
2023 Greyhawk Adventures (HC rulebook)
1043 The City of Greyhawk Campaign Expansion, boxed set

I own all of the above, but I haven't read them all.  From what I do remember, it seemed that most everything that did come out with the "Compatible with 1st and 2nd Edition AD&D" was actually really 1E stuff with that label slapped on them.  I would tend to assume that all of it leans more to the 1E side than the 2E side.  I think that a lot that material was already written for 1E and it was stuff they didn't want to go to waste, so they marketed it as being for both editions with no real editing happening to truly make it so.  I could be wrong, but that is kinda how I thought of it.  

All in all, modules are pretty easy to use between (1E & 2E) editions without much work, and I think TSR knew that and took advantage of that fact.  lol

~Kat  ^_^

Guy Fullerton wrote:Some of the AD&D items released around the start of the 2nd edition era (1989) are labeled as compatible with both 1st and 2nd edition AD&D. Most/all of these have the 2nd edition AD&D logo on the cover.

However, I know that at least one of these (specifically WG8 Gargoyle, which I own) is decidedly a 1st edition module -- and most assuredly *not* a 2nd edition module -- because of the various mechanical bits contained therein.

For those of you with the other transitional products, do you know which side of the 1st/2nd edition fence they fall on? Are any of them truly hybrids in the sense that the module speaks in terms of both 1st & 2nd edition mechanics and/or offers conversion advice?

Some of the particular ones I'm interested in are:
WG8 Fate of Istus
WG10 Child's Play
WG11 Puppets

I need to look at the list of 1989-ish Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance products. There may be some transitional ones there too.

All the original DL modules are strictly 1st edition, furthermore, they are from the pre-UA era, with some hints of UA from the DL10 module onward (but just small references, for example a thief/acrobat NPC and one or two spells). From the Dragonlance Adventures hardback we start to see the seeds of 2e; actually, it's the first book which introduces specialty priests with spell spheres, and specialty magic-users (though in a slightly different form than the 2e ones)