D&D General What is your most prized Dungeons and Dragons Product?

[MNblockhead]

My Bugbear Miniatures are my prized DnD possessions as well as my Curse of Strahd 5th edition book.

What about you? What are your favorite Dungeons and Dragons possessions?

I have 4.

The first, like you is my Curse of Strahd, 5th Edition book. Even though I ran a home brew campaign for a little over a year after getting back into TTRPGs with 5e, I loved Ravenloft (I6) back in 1e, and this books most strongly represents that mix of nolstalgia and fresh D&D that made me fall in love with the hobby again. I got Chris Perkins to sign it as Gamehole Con this year, so it is even more prized.

The second is a pale blue, dog-chewed, d10 that still has the original crayon I had to rub into the numbers. It is the only thing remaining from my original box set that got me into the hobby as a pre-teen in 80s. It now resides in my box of Illimat to be used as my ocus when I play that game.

The third is the first issue of Polyhedron signed by Gary Gygax.

The fourth is Dragon #144 and the contract with TSR for an article I had published in it, co-signed by my mom.

 

[Voadam]

My original now water stained copy of Moldvay Basic. I left it out on a picnic table once and it rained. I carefully dried it and the pages managed to not stick together or smear and it is still functional and not moldy.

My first D&D book. How I learned my first full set of D&D rules, some of the best intro to D&D text I have seen, it introduces a lot of playing style aspects I still generally adhere to that have been fun, and hugely evocative art I consider fantastic to this day.

 

[Aellic Mornbringer]

As others have mentioned, there are my original Mentzer Basic booklets but my other most treasured D&D materials are the first ones I ever received: a collection of well-worn 1E modules that one of the older Scouts in my troop gave me after he'd quit playing but heard I was curious about the game. He'd already sold his rulebooks so I spent countless hours reading the adventures and trying to figure out how to reverse-engineer the rules. I did that for a year, maybe two before I got my hands on the red box set.

Another honorable mention actually, some of my D&D artwork. I have a few signed Elmore prints but also have a couple of pieces from artists that closed their online stores (Jeff Dee and Daniel Horne specifically) so I'm thankful to have those.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

My Wyrmwood dice tray that I was recently able to pass down to my oldest son when he started into D&D.

 

[Voadam]

Second most treasured would probably be my author’s copy of Penumbra fantasy bestiary from the 3.0 era. I did a number of contributing author things for 3e stuff from various Scarred Lands books to obscure gaming frontiers material but the atlas games one got my friends listed in a published gaming book as playtesters since it included the barrow wight template I developed for a PC who got turned into one in a 2e Ravenloft campaign that eventually converted to 3e after having started in 1e Greyhawk.

 

[Lakesidefantasy]

Okay, I notice a pattern here: Deities and Demigods!? I guess I'll have to take a look at it again.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I had a still in shrink wrap Holmes basic boxed set. Chits or dice? The world will never know. But I auctioned it off last year to raise money for Darlene to fix her house.

 

[Voadam]

Okay, I notice a pattern here: Deities and Demigods!? I guess I'll have to take a look at it again.

Excellent evocative art but be aware some toplessness. Also 2e goes into more and better lore IMO. 1e is more just mostly the beings as NPC stats similar to demon lords and planetars and elemental princes in 1e. I hugely love it but I also really love 2e’s deeper dives on the lore and narratives in presenting gods.

I had a later printing and was really grateful that a friend when I was in college let me photocopy the Elric and Cthulhu stuff that was not in my copy. Again great evocative art.

I really wish the OD&D gods book had the missing Conan and other literary myths entries in the PDF instead of excising them.

I have great stuff from other sources but I would like to have the full originals in that PDF particularly since a lot did not make it into 2e.

 

[Arilyn]

My grey box Forgotten Realms.
My half melted dice from my old red box set that my best friend gave me for Christmas. Actually, I guess the whole red box!

 

[J-H]

My custom DM screen (via Etsy seller):
Player-facing

Owlbear, Castlevania 2, Irenicus from Baldur's Gate 2

DM-facing