Ok, anyone think this late70s/early80s fashion thing is getting out of hand?

[Krieg]

Back in the day when we played the Post-It edition of D&D we didn't have covers (the legendary precursor to both Chainmail and the Fantasy Game, PID&D comprises literally a single yellow post-it note bearing the legend "Design fantasy game with classes and levels" - Gygax and Arneson still dispute whose handwriting it is in...).

Psst...Post-It notes were invented in 1980.

 

[AFGNCAAP]

Covers? Covers?? Luxury!

As a veteran gamer with three hundred years' gaming experience I can only laugh at this munchkinist faddery. Back in the day when we played the Post-It edition of D&D we didn't have covers (the legendary precursor to both Chainmail and the Fantasy Game, PID&D comprises literally a single yellow post-it note bearing the legend "Design fantasy game with classes and levels" - Gygax and Arneson still dispute whose handwriting it is in...). Classes and levels, classes and levels - that was it. And it was fantasy. I played a 97th level Dragonslayer, my little brother played an Anti-Illusionist who was about to reach Green Level and this one wierd guy who ran the local SCA played an enormous intelligent stoat who claimed he was level 200 and something - even back then you had your powergamers, I guess.

The game has gone continually downhill ever since they put it into those stupid booklets.

Y'know, I could almost hear the late great Graham Chapman saying that when I read this post.

 

[Style]

Psst...Post-It notes were invented in 1980.

Actually, the special adhesive was invented in 1968, although an application for it was not found until 1974, when legendary pastor-DM Art Fry used it to make bookmarks for a hymnal. 1974! Coincidence? I think not!! And have you ever seen Gygax and Fry in the same place at the same time? No. You haven't. And that's because they are the same person. And let's not forget that pre-release versions of the commercial Post-It became available in 1977, just prior to the release of AD&D. Another coincidence? Right. Sure. You go on believing that, buddy. You go right on believing.

 

[RFisher]

I like that Style. He's (or she's) got...er...style.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

Who-boy the realms are in toruble now that the zhents figured out the secret to imortality that is "Dead men don't wear plaid" Dunh, dunh, dunh.

"I haven't seen a dame with a body like that since the case of the dead girl with the really big ." Detective Rigby.

 

[diaglo]

Actually, the special adhesive was invented in 1968, although an application for it was not found until 1974, when legendary pastor-DM Art Fry used it to make bookmarks for a hymnal. 1974! Coincidence? I think not!! And have you ever seen Gygax and Fry in the same place at the same time? No. You haven't. And that's because they are the same person. And let's not forget that pre-release versions of the commercial Post-It became available in 1977, just prior to the release of AD&D. Another coincidence? Right. Sure. You go on believing that, buddy. You go right on believing.

didn't they also use that special adhesive to hold the 1edADnD books together?

 

[Jupp]

Looking at my 3E PHB I think thats about the only legacy left over from 1e that made it directly to 3E :/

 

[AdvntrGuy]

Never mind....y'all beat me to it.

 

[Style]

Indeed...

 

[Ranger REG]

Remember:

In the 80's, we had AIDS, Crack, and Michael Bolton.

No, we had DEVO.

"Whip it! Whip it good!"