40 years of Playing and (mostly) DM-ing the World's Most Popular Roleplaying Game When I started playing D&D in 1981, I was already an adult.  I was a Tolkien fan, had read LoTR several times by then, and also some of high-fantasy pastiches the Sci-Fi paperback houses had started publishing in the late '70s. What little I knew about the game sounded intriguing. About the only other awareness I had were the reports about some D&D playing kid named Egbert disappearing in the steam tunnels. Some friends I was working with at a NASA facility were starting up a game, and I wrangled my way in. We were all newbies, starting with the Moldvay Basic rules, then picking up the Expert rules as we rolled along. At some point, we bought in to AD&D and played a mash-up of the two rule sets. We eventually ended up with a solid group of five. Our friendship pre-dated gaming and, particularly through the '80s, D&D was only a small part of our social interaction. We never play...

  Reaper 0319  Goblin Warriors Missing the Archer -- I lost the bow before attaching. Probably it fell into the carpet and was sucked up by the vacuum.    

Hadn't picked up the brush in almost a year; these three had been partially completed. Somewhere between Slop 'n Go and Table Top.                               Reaper 02011 Darbin, Human Wizard                                     TSR 5601 AD&D Shambling Mound                                TSR 5502 Gamma World Pure Strain Humans     The photos pick up fine detail not readily apparent to my naked eye. And probably to the eyes of the old men sitting around my table. But they should look great out there on the battle mat during play...