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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flying Toaster" data-source="post: 9759201" data-attributes="member: 7052563">Those 1982 AD&D monster cards were the first D&D products I ever saw, circa 1983-84.  A friend of mine who was two years older started collecting RPG stuff, including AD&D and Star Frontiers, and he must have had all four of these sets because I remember the art for most of those new monsters.  He would let me look at the monster cards for the art, but I had to promise that I wasn’t memorizing monster stats and weaknesses - an easy promise to make since I did not know how to play the game anyway <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😄" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f604.png" title="Grinning face with smiling eyes    :smile:" data-shortname=":smile:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /> (the 80’s RPG scene inherited some of the old wargaming paranoia about players knowing the rules, to say nothing of details about monsters, magic items, etc.).  I did not start actually playing until sometime in 1984-85, and my first game was a Tomb of Horrors one-shot using pregens!  I think I ran a Grey Elf Fighter / Mage / Thief.  I got a Moldvay Basic Set in either 1985 or 1986, and then got most of the AD&D books in 1986 and used them for years to come.  I never bought any of the card sets myself, probably because they had gone out of print by the late 80’s, but I can still remember the art for creatures like the Gnoll, Thri-Kreen, and Peryton.</blockquote>

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