I've Got My Twelve-Sided Die

[robotnik2004]

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

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[that-cad.livejournal.com]

BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! [cough cough] BWA! BWA HA HA HA HA HA! [cough, cough] LOOK AT THEIR HAIR! BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA! [wipes eyes]

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that's "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Club."

Er, "Dungons."

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

What's that, 10-11 people in a party? That's a better party size than I ever managed at that age.

Which is, honest to god, the first thing that occurred to me, looking at that picture.

On a scale of geekiness, just how I high does that make me rank?

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I dare folks to post a similar photo from where they were in 1980. I would but I don't think I have any.

[that-cad.livejournal.com]

Let's see, where was I in 1980? Oh, that's right. I wasn't even conceived yet.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

I'm also thinking that our ethnic diversity hasn't improved much as a hobby in 25 years. Though our gender diversity has.

[multiplexer.livejournal.com]

You'll be happy to know that my work's highly intelligent nannyware design blocks that image as nudity and/or satanic content.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

When I first saw this picture (was it linked on Fark.com a while back?) I was extremely gratified to see they were proudly displaying the three core books, as befits any true Dungons and Dragons club. So I guess I'm in the same geeky boat as ratmmjess. :)

[head58.livejournal.com]

None of those kids are fat enough to have been me in 1980.

I think I looked most like the teacher/advisor woman though. How scary is that?

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

...and I wonder what those kids are doing now? I would like to think at least one of them is a millionaire. At least one of them is probably a *former* millionaire... :)

"Marry a geek," said my mother. "You'll have the last laugh. I did!"

[editswlonghair.livejournal.com]

Can anybody tell what second from the right in the back is holding up? I'm guessing some original art or something, but it's really tough to make out...

lol

[xbuilder.livejournal.com]

Its the DM's screen .
When my friend Sean's mom ran our games in middle school that's what she used.

Man they started playing DnD just about the time I did.

I feel old.

[head58.livejournal.com]

What does it say that this is the most Responded-to post* I think I have ever seen on Livejournal?

*excluding anything posted by Warren Ellis

[dawaterrat.livejournal.com]

Hi, I was directed here via ivan23.

This does bring back some memories, yes.... Games Club, Science Fiction club (which eventually absorbed Games Club, because Games Club kept loosing people to Play Rehearsals). Though none of them look like me, I recall plenty of other folks in those clubs who looked like them.

[gammafodder1.livejournal.com]

I am insanely jealous of all of those 1980 kids. If I remember right, our D&D club at school lasted all of two sessions before it was forcefully cancelled by the administration because of concerns that we were Satanists.

To quote Ogre, from Revenge of the Nerds, "Neeeeeeeeeerds!"

[mfbob.livejournal.com]

even though i haven't gamed in years, that pic brings back some memories. painful, disturbing memories. i was such a geek back in the early '80's... {{{shudder}}}

what's a dungon? lol!

I don't have any pictures of myself from that age.

[mysteriousrhino.livejournal.com]

I thought about digging out a picture of myself from that age, but then I remembered that there aren't any. Or at least if there are nobody can *prove* it. Heh heh heh.

::smirks, furrows eyebrows, and wrings hands with evil glee::

Hey! My wife is a high school teacher, and she just started an anime club. Apparently, it's very popular. (Now do I have a cool wife, or what?) She doesn't look like the teacher in the picture, however.