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12th-13th century mail styles for historical or fantasy settings (The Palladium Book of Weapons and Armour by Matthew Balent, with armor illustrations by Mary Walsh and Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Books, 1981) This 50-page comic-sized publication gave a brief introductory summary of armor and weapon types through history and across different cultures, with a bibliography for further study, useful enough for the $4.95 cover price.
This is an interesting look at the origins of the Braunstein game in the Twin Cities wargaming group, one of the most important antecedents of D&D. David Wesely is still around, still running Braunsteins at cons, and he popped in to add his comments to this video.
Tonight, we remember one who lent his enormous talent to telling the story we have all come to love. Hail, the victorious dead!
May the Simbelmynë cover his tomb as it did the tomb of the one he so accurately portrayed.
Bernard Hill Dec 17, 1944 - May 5, 2024
Old time religion -- Dungeons & Dragons Supplement IV: Gods, Demi-Gods & Heroes by Rob Kuntz and Jim Ward, TSR, 1976
Return of the Ewok - behind the scenes movie by Warwick Davis during filming of Return of the Jedi
This looks like the full video -- I usually see only short clips from the hallway sequence around 7:30
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That avocado colour in the middle? That was the colour of our bathroom and bathtub and the colour of the posts outside the house. It was 1972. That was the colour.
I’ve talked before about how this was the context of the premiere of Star Wars in 1977, in many of our homes and public spaces, and I think it contributed a bit to the film’s immediate popularity. Those color bars don’t do justice to how sour and rotten-looking the “natural” hues of the ‘70s could be. The world outside the theater was avocado and goldenrod, plus some faded red, white, and blue leftovers from the US bicentennial.
Then we went inside and saw:
Sharp blacks and whites, gleaming metallics even with the “lived-in” stains, contrasted to natural soft blues and warm browns.
Then we emerged after 2 hours to rejoin the world as it was. No wonder people kept paying to go back in dozens of times, month after month, for the longest theatrical run in history.
The spice must flow -- Han and Jabba discuss business in docking bay 94 (From the Marvel Comics/Whitman oversized 2-volume Special Edition adaptation of Star Wars, Howard Chaykin & Steve Leialoha artists/embellishers, Roy Thomas scripter/editor, 1977)
Declan Mulholland (Jabba the Hutt) on Stage 3 with Harrison Ford (Han Solo) and Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) during filming of Star Wars (1977)
Happy harpie (Greg Bell, D&D Supplement II: Blackmoor by Dave Arneson, TSR, 1975). The title page credits "Mike Bell" which appears to be a typo.
UK 1987
This is the best concept for an educational game I've ever seen
Chainmail rules for medieval miniatures by Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren, 3rd ed printing by TSR, 1975 (first published by Don Lowry's Guidon Games in 1971), with Lowry's illustrations plus photos of early sand table games which originally used 40mm scale Elastolin and Starlux toy soldiers.
Combat in Dungeons & Dragons was developed around the d6 Chainmail rules, but the first 1974 D&D set also included an optional d20 system that became the more popular choice.
Vikings and Saxons at war (The Palladium Book of Weapons and Armour by Matthew Balent, with armor illustrations by Mary Walsh and Kevin Siembieda, Palladium Books, 1981)
The spectre of Death approves (Kevin Siembieda and Michael Kucharski, The Palladium Book of Weapons and Armour by Matthew Balent, Palladium Books, 1981)
Magical diagrams, protections from extra-planar beings (from AD&D module S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth by Gary Gygax, TSR, 1982)
"Beep, boop, we are orcs. Nothing to see here. Move along, adventurers." (Erol Otus, AD&D module S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks by Gary Gygax, TSR, 1980)
Clever girl, and boy -- 2 dinosaur-like lizardoids hunt in the ruins of their enclosure (Jeff Dee, AD&D module S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks by Gary Gygax, TSR, 1980)
