This week has been pretty wild in our hobby, from the
State of the Mongoose to the
WotC job layoffs, and the chatter has been at a tempo to match. Let's take a break from all that now and enjoy some old gaming ads from the pages of Dragon #39 (July 1980). In this issue, you also have the infamous Anti-Paladin NPC, Morality in Fantasy, a comparison between
Chainmail,
Basic D&D, and
AD&D, and as a bonus, the
Top Secret module
The Missile Mission.
(Click to enlarge pictures):
Iron Crown was going for...something...here. "Trademark applied for". Glad to see they got it:
What, Delilah doesn't get any say in all of this?:
1980--right on time!:
Not sure what to get the Admiral Ackbar on your list? Never fear!:
Seriously, don't you wish you could go back and get mint copies of this stuff cheap?:
I know I do.
4 comments:
You actually pose an interesting question. How much of this stuff still exists? It would be cool to get people to scan that stuff and save it as a pdf to preserve the contents for future generations of gamers.
I too, wonder how much of the minor stuff from back then is just sitting around in someone's attic; it'd be cool to see some of the Encounter Critical-esque stuff from back then be rediscovered.
Heh. "I have been sent back in time to buy everything ever advertised in Dragon Magazine."
I hereby volunteer for this mission.
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