Just like riding a bike
Finally got my game on this weekend and had some great fun. I DMed a group of three using OSRIC/1e rules through a modified version of Keep on the Borderlands. So far the group has hired some mercenary muscle and managed to talk the Priest at the Temple of Daegraed, Lord of the Dawn to lend one of his novices to the expedition. They picked up some rumors at the Pickled Boar from some grizzled vets and then headed off towards the unknown. They spotted a kobold off the trail and decided to investigate. The party's initial inattention lead to one of the mercinaries to fall into a pit trap and while they were rescuing him, they were ambushed by kobolds hidden in the woods. After a heated combat, one kobold escaped, they slew seven of them and captured one. The elven fighter/mage questioned the prisoner who was reluctant to talk, but the elf applied some torture and cut off a couple of fingers. The kobold gave some ominous warnings and then bit off its own tongue and died a rat