Several early TSR ads found by Jon, inc one for the first print of the Basic Set that I hadn't seen before.
Originally shared by Jon Peterson
A vintage Dungeons & Dragons advertisement: Slain Any Wicked Dragons Lately?
http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2017/11/vintage-ad-slain-any-wicked-dragons.html
I remember seeing this just months before I started playing!
ReplyDelete"... dates from the first half of 1977, a stopping point when TSR had wrapped up publishing the original Dungeons & Dragons game ..."
ReplyDeleteWell, actually, even though no new additions outside of the basic set were generated after "Swords & Spells", the original game materials continued to be printed until November of 1979, or if you count the Holmes basic set correctly as OD&D, December 1979.
Good points Brian. I don't even think that Dec 1979 date is accurate for the last printing of the Basic Set, given that it included B2 which apparently couldn't have been published by that point (Frank Mentzer started in Jan '80 and he worked on editing B2).
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