Author Topic: Nostalgia! (Read 7778 times)

grant · « **on:** November 22, 2013, 05:18:12 AM »

http://soldatetain.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/nostalgia/
Blog post, all about nostalgia!

I was recently reading and thoroughly enjoying this post over on Lead Adventure:

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=32158.0

For anyone who is familiar with the best days of the Dungeons & Dragons game, the thread will be like a trip through time. The poster, Spooktalker, has an amazing collection of vintage and new miniatures that are from those halcyon days, or evoke them.

As a result of reading through them, I was inspired to haul out my collection and take some photos.

First up, is my oldest collection, the “white box” set, plus all the supplements from the beginning of D&D.

The rest of the pics are here: http://soldatetain.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/nostalgia/

Doomsdave · « **Reply #1 on:** November 22, 2013, 05:22:22 AM »

A classic. Yours has survived remarkably well. I started earnestly with Moldvay B/X after a brief bout with Holmes Bluebook. Still play B/X to this day. I never owned the LBBs so I may buy the premium reprints in Dec. I just hate the cover art. Thanks for sharing.

grant · « **Reply #2 on:** November 22, 2013, 05:31:06 AM »

Quote from: Doomsdave on November 22, 2013, 05:22:22 AM

A classic. Yours has survived remarkably well. I started earnestly with Moldvay B/X after a brief bout with Holmes Bluebook. Still play B/X to this day. I never owned the LBBs so I may buy the premium reprints in Dec. I just hate the cover art. Thanks for sharing.

The reprint is tempting...

Cheers!

Doomsdave · « **Reply #3 on:** November 22, 2013, 05:32:49 AM »

And...Amazon US has them marked off $50.

Spooktalker · « **Reply #4 on:** November 23, 2013, 01:27:50 AM »

Thanks for the shoutout and great post! Your credentials check out... can somebody get this guy a special badge or something?

Seriously, very nice collection, right on.

The set of books I use are in your 3rd pic down, but my copies were bought later second hand.

grant · « **Reply #5 on:** November 23, 2013, 05:45:57 AM »

Quote from: Spooktalker on November 23, 2013, 01:27:50 AM

Thanks for the shoutout and great post! Your credentials check out... can somebody get this guy a special badge or something?

Seriously, very nice collection, right on.

The set of books I use are in your 3rd pic down, but my copies were bought later second hand.

Thanks!

It was good to haul out all the stuff and browse through it. Great times... simpler times! We should form a badge-society...

Cheers!

Doomhippie · « **Reply #6 on:** November 23, 2013, 10:36:14 AM »

Oooh, shiney!

I love the old D&D game. It was such an incredible new level of gaming, I think maybe the Invention of the wheel is comparable with the Advent of rpgs. But only barely!

Steam Flunky · « **Reply #7 on:** November 23, 2013, 03:27:28 PM »

My god.They are even older than the set i had. I had the basic rules set from 1978.
http://www.waynesbooks.com/dungeonsdragons.html
My school grades went down fast after buying that. My head was always in another world.

grant · « **Reply #8 on:** November 23, 2013, 04:56:35 PM »

Quote from: Scurv on November 23, 2013, 11:11:10 AM

I had the red box set with the elmore art. It was great fun back then. Your set is ace. I bet you are a tidy person.

When I was a kid, my dad was a warrant officer in the Canadian Air Force, so we moved every 2-4 years. I was allowed on very small bookcase, and that's all the personal books I was allowed! His sense of tidy has rubbed off, I suppose, but I'm not as uptight about it.

FramFramson · « **Reply #9 on:** November 23, 2013, 08:05:06 PM »

I never had those, but my brother and I did have the original old board game version.

grant · « **Reply #10 on:** November 23, 2013, 09:25:37 PM »

Cubs · « **Reply #11 on:** November 24, 2013, 09:55:45 AM »

I spent so long copying the ink drawings in those sorts of books with my Rotring technical drawing pens. For some reason there was this weird subculture in our school where we would buy loads of Rotring pens in different sizes and spend ages stripping them down, cleaning them and filling them with ink. Was this just us?

grant · « **Reply #12 on:** November 24, 2013, 05:38:18 PM »

Quote from: Cubs on November 24, 2013, 09:55:45 AM

I spent so long copying the ink drawings in those sorts of books with my Rotring technical drawing pens. For some reason there was this weird subculture in our school where we would buy loads of Rotring pens in different sizes and spend ages stripping them down, cleaning them and filling them with ink. Was this just us?

Nope. I had loads of those pens too!

Melnibonean · « **Reply #13 on:** November 25, 2013, 02:40:40 AM »

What a great collection. I don't actually have my D&D books any more but a friend still has kept them (and his own) along with hundreds of my 70's & 80'S figures safe and sound. I guess we'll have to break them out one day and go through them.

Quote from: Cubs on November 24, 2013, 09:55:45 AM

I spent so long copying the ink drawings in those sorts of books with my Rotring technical drawing pens. For some reason there was this weird subculture in our school where we would buy loads of Rotring pens in different sizes and spend ages stripping them down, cleaning them and filling them with ink. Was this just us?

Me too. I used them for years after my school years and I still have them stashed away in a box in the garage. I love the feel of them and the way they work.

Mr. Peabody · « **Reply #14 on:** November 25, 2013, 03:10:37 AM »

LOL. With our group you just weren't 'at' the table if you didn't have a technical pen...

Thanks for the nostalgia hit.

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