I've Got My Twelve-Sided Die

[robotnik2004]

Dungeons and Dragons Club, Somebody's Yearbook, California, 1980.

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[robotnik.livejournal.com]

It didn't occur to me that it was all one party, but remembering my own early 1980s in school D&D adventures, it might well have been. Which one do you think is the Dungeon Master?

[that-cad.livejournal.com]

I feel like the old lady at the end was the DM. Call me crazy.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

If it was anything like our school RPG club from the early 80s the woman was some liberal teacher who felt kids should explore whatever interested them and was the advisor because the school demands a faculty sponsor and was hardly ever in the room where the gaming was going on.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

If it was anything like my high school adventures (1981-1984), then they probably had rotating DMs--one guy ran the group through his own dungeon, another guy ran the group, with different characters, through his dungeon.

The DM...hmm. Kid with the glasses, front row, second from left? He just looks like a DM to me.

[ivan23.livejournal.com]

And curiously, he looks just like I did at that age. Weird. Eerie.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I owned several of those shirts.

[ivan23.livejournal.com]

Young Carson Kressleys we were not.

[sneech515.livejournal.com]

The serious-looking one, front row, second from the left. He looks like the type that would memorize "to hit" tables and give stern, schoolyard lectures about game balance.

Either that or the black kid holding the DM's guide.

Pointless aside: All three of the books in that photo (and two of those three exact editions) are not less than five feet from my desk at home.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right, I think. He probably gets really irritated at the chubby kid next to him who doesn't take the adventure seriously enough.

[gammafodder1.livejournal.com]

Gotcha beat: All my 1st edition D&D manuals are within arm's reach from my desk, including King Floyd's copy of the Cthulhu Edition of Deities and Demigods.

My Mom says I'm cool ...

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Aha! I knew one of you guys had to have that book. All this time, whenever I've needed to know Shub-Niggurath's Charisma or the armor classes of the Melnibone Mythos, I've been SOL... :)