Monday, March 29, 2021

A Significant Birthday

I was going to post something about this earlier this weekend, but got caught up in events.  As I mentioned in my 2020 retrospective, my 60th birthday is this year, or, more specifically, last week...

While I don’t remember exactly when I was introduced to rules for wargaming in the spring of 1971, 50 years ago, I do remember that I received my original Dungeons & Dragons for my birthday in 1976, 45 years ago.  So, thank you, Mom and Dad! I’m not sure what I would have been doing without games and the friends I’ve made gaming all of these years.

As you can see, my D&D set is still in playable condition.  Since it’s worn and has my notes (mostly pencil) scattered throughout, I had no particular qualms about reinforcing weak covers and rebuilding the box with library tape last year.  Sometime this year, I’d like to get at least a short campaign on the table for old times sake.



When I do, I’m considering staffing it with the vintage miniatures I’ve been collecting more recently. I probably will not restrict things to just the Minifigs that I started with, more recently painted examples of which are shown below:



More on that when it occurs...





5 comments:

  1. Happy birthday Rob.
    I still have the D&D starter set books and dice (sadly not the purple? box) from the early 1980s that my Mum and Dad bought me - and I still can't make head nor tail of it. I haven't sold it because it was a gift and I hope that one day it will make sense, and that if every few years I take it out and read it through again, that one day the penny will finally drop ... nearly 40 years on this has yet to happen! :)

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    1. Perhaps just look for someone else’s campaign to play in? :D

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  2. I had the box set many moons ago but it went along with my d and rules etc. Sadly l left my figures ( majority Mythical Earth ) at a friends and never got them back , can’t recall why. I look forward to seeing your campaign. I really like what you have done with these ME figures, lovely paint job. Happy Birthday btw!

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    1. Thanks! I was conducting a census of all my fantasy figures last weekend, and noting that I can put down a fair army of ME orcs and goblins at this point, so, even if they don’t end up in a D&D game soon, they should be out for a battle.

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  3. Happy birthday Rob! Great to see that you've managed to hang onto your original copy and kept it in such good condition.

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