On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 02:16:28PM -0500, Walter Gilbert wrote: > Very cool shot, Larry! I've been trying to think of what it > reminds me of, and at the risk of outing myself as an old-school > Dungeons & Dragons geek, I finally figured it out. There's a > creature called the "Shambling Mound" in the Monster Manual: > > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3320/3183005607_b4626432ba.jpg?v=0 > > Now, feel free to go about making fun of the D&D nerd. > > -- Walt
I think I've got you beat there - I've still got my original 1974 D&D booklets (the white-boxed three volumes, plus the first four expansions). They're in fairly good shape, because by the time I was gaming regularly we were either using AD&D or, more often, a variety of home-grown rule systems loosely based on AD&D. The most common variation was one that would be recognised by an average RPG player of today - using mana points, rather than the fire(ball)-and-forget magic system of by-the-book D&D/AD&D. I've also got a complete set of Dragon magazine up to issue 250 or so (including all 7 issues of the pre-cursor Tactical Studies Rules), and a fair assortment of other gaming accessories from those days. My subscription to Dragon started around issue 60, I believe, but I was able to fill in most of the early gaps in the late '80s by scouring sales I found on this newfangled usenet newsgroups world (including one generous gamer who sold me 30 early issues at face, including half a dozen issues from the first three years; the only issue that really forced me to pay collector prices was issue #1). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
