Pete and Jeni turned up at our door today, with their young son Archie who Rachel and I haven't seen for almost a year, bearing a box of old games materials.Pete had been into their loft to see what old Top Secret stuff he could find to complement the game he will start running for The Tuesday Knights in just over a weeks' time.
He also found a load of Dungeons & Dragons books, modules etc that hadn't seen the light of day since we were all at school, back in the '80s.
And he wondered if I'd like them...
I, of course, said: "Yes" and "Thank you, very much".
In the box there were:
- old copies of the Dragon and White Dwarf, which I can't wait to curl up and read through, as well as the premier issue of Adventurer (the first magazine to carry an advert for the HeroPress);
- a selection of floor tiles and stand-up cardboard figures (Dungeons & Dragons and Villains & Vigilantes);
- a battered Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide;
- an assemblage of old modules (including the first seven of TSR's UK range);
- a 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons Monstrous Compendium folder, packed with juicy monsters;
- a complete collection of The Fantasy Trip core booklets (we played the guts out of this game in the '80s, with Steve running an enduring campaign that ended abruptly when we "went where we warned not to go". TFT, of course, became increasing complicated and evolved into GURPS, which we never got into);
- a 9th printing of the original Blackmoor supplement for OD&D (almost certainly bought from The Dark Tower, when Tunbridge Wells had a 'friendly local game store');
- a Villains & Vigilantes module (Assassin); and
- a "characters of Middle Earth" book for the Middle Earth Roleplaying Game (MERP).
There was also the one copy of Starhound we all used to share - this was a fantastic wargame of starship combat that we played in Steve and Pete's garden, as the ships could move so far and so fast.
Ahhh, those were the days!
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