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Happy 49th Birthday D&D

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By scott | 5:02 PM AKST, Sun January 29, 2023
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The Cook edition of Dungeons & Dragons Expert Rulebook with a cover by Erol Otus
Dungeon Module X2: Castle Amber with Erol Otus's painting on the cover

Today seems to be a good candidate for celebrating the release of D&D, so I'm marking the 49th anniversary of its release.

Alas, I'm not playing much lately, due to a combination of several factors, chiefly being busy with work and too exhausted to have much of a social life on weekends. But I'm planning something for next year, the last Sunday of January, where I hope to have a game going.

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F is for Flumph

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By scott | 7:39 PM AKST, Fri January 10, 2020
Watercolor of a monster: a Flumph from the Fiend Folio.
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After a number of years (seven, apparently)—and thanks to an ideal subject prompt requested from Grackleflint—I finally got around to doing the sixth letter of the monster alphabet. 

Not great, maybe, but … I've been away.

LJN Toys Grell

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By scott | 5:34 PM AKST, Thu December 05, 2019
The horrible Grell toy, an AD&D monster.
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This is the really deadly (and really ugly) Grell, another LJN-made D&D monster bendable toy which likely got little to no respect in the early 1980s.

There’s a lot going for it. Brains, tentacles, and … a beak. The Fiend Folio creature has these features, but the accompanying illustration is far better than the effect here, which is sort of brains-on-a-cracker with green extremities.

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