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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8716392" data-attributes="member: 52734"><p>I had a quite different experience, perhaps because my D&D days started in California. The local library had the AD&D books "on card", but they were always checked out (and had been so for months...). Our local mall toy store (Toyland, later bought by Kaybee) had both the Holmes set and the AD&D line. I actually got my AD&D books from Toys'R'Us, my Greyhawk set and the DL modules from Waldenbooks/Bookland (which also carried CoC, BTW), and my Companion/Master set as well as Star Frontiers from Kaybee's toys. In the bay area at least, the game was pretty much everywhere that sold books.</p><p></p><p>As far as advertisement went, the comics I read usually had full-page D&D ads, done like a comic strip. Then there was the short-lived D&D cartoon.</p><p></p><p>When I moved to Mississippi, in '86, it took me a couple years to find any D&D books - the local mall bookstore carried some modules and I finally lucked into finding a FLGS that carried the whole line. Also, it wasn't until I moved that I discovered Dragon magazine even existed.</p><p></p><p>I self-taught myself D&D, though I did get some help when older classmates found out I was DMing - they even game me copies of Shrine of the Kuo-Toa & Vault of the Drow (the old monocolor covers). Those were the first AD&D items I owned, and from there I was coaxed to putting aside B/X to learn and run AD&D, the "real adult's game".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 8716392, member: 52734"] I had a quite different experience, perhaps because my D&D days started in California. The local library had the AD&D books "on card", but they were always checked out (and had been so for months...). Our local mall toy store (Toyland, later bought by Kaybee) had both the Holmes set and the AD&D line. I actually got my AD&D books from Toys'R'Us, my Greyhawk set and the DL modules from Waldenbooks/Bookland (which also carried CoC, BTW), and my Companion/Master set as well as Star Frontiers from Kaybee's toys. In the bay area at least, the game was pretty much everywhere that sold books. As far as advertisement went, the comics I read usually had full-page D&D ads, done like a comic strip. Then there was the short-lived D&D cartoon. When I moved to Mississippi, in '86, it took me a couple years to find any D&D books - the local mall bookstore carried some modules and I finally lucked into finding a FLGS that carried the whole line. Also, it wasn't until I moved that I discovered Dragon magazine even existed. I self-taught myself D&D, though I did get some help when older classmates found out I was DMing - they even game me copies of Shrine of the Kuo-Toa & Vault of the Drow (the old monocolor covers). Those were the first AD&D items I owned, and from there I was coaxed to putting aside B/X to learn and run AD&D, the "real adult's game". [/QUOTE]
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