I was going to post something about this earlier this weekend, but got caught up in events. As I mentioned in my 2020 retrospective, my 60th birthday is this year, or, more specifically, last week…
While I don’t remember exactly when I was introduced to rules for wargaming in the spring of 1971, 50 years ago, I do remember that I received my original Dungeons & Dragons for my birthday in 1976, 45 years ago. So, thank you, Mom and Dad! I’m not sure what I would have been doing without games and the friends I’ve made gaming all of these years.
As you can see, my D&D set is still in playable condition. Since it’s worn and has my notes (mostly pencil) scattered throughout, I had no particular qualms about reinforcing weak covers and rebuilding the box with library tape last year. Sometime this year, I’d like to get at least a short campaign on the table for old times sake.
When I do, I’m considering staffing it with the vintage miniatures I’ve been collecting more recently. I probably will not restrict things to just the Minifigs that I started with, more recently painted examples of which are shown below:
More on that when it occurs…
