[COLOR=#800000]Hello all, as you all know I'm an avid fan of D&D, having played it now for some 32 years :) Yes, I'm an oldie. [/COLOR]

[COLOR=#800000]The journey for me started with the original/classic D&D back in the late 70's early 80s when I was introduced to the Holmes Basic/Expert sets by my god father at the age of 10. My passion for D&D was firmly cemented by the time Mr Moldvay came along with his editions of the Basic/Expert sets and by the time the BECMI box sets were out I was already DMing my own campaigns based in Greyhawk. Why am I telling you all this? Well along the ways I have procured and acquired various content, material, some rare, some exotic and some not so and thought it might be fun/interesting to share pictures of my collection in the hopes it will encourage others to do so. I like to think of my collection as a preservation of a slice of roleplaying gaming history and it would be a shame to lock it all up never to see the light of day so instead I start this thread in the hopes we can start an interesting dialogue amongst friends.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#800000]And so I will kick off the thread with a history of D&D by bookshelf starting with the original releases and working upto modern day.

Bookshelf number 1 from my collection:[/COLOR]

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[LIST][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons Rules for Fantastic Medieval Wargames Campaigns Playable with Paper and Pencil and Miniature Figures (2nd Printing 1975) - the original 3 booklets but the woodgrain box is a replica as mine got destroyed :( and yes, that really was the title of the game when it launched in 1974 - what a mouthful :)
[/COLOR][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons Rules for Fantastic Medieval Wargames Campaigns Playable with Paper and Pencil and Miniature Figures (5th Printing 1975) - the original white box[/COLOR][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Holmes - UK Edition 1st Print 1977) - the first revised edition of D&D by J. Eric Holmes who was a teacher and a D&D fan but felt the original books were not new player friendly - he was right.[/COLOR][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Holmes - US Edition 2nd Print 1978) w/Dice[/COLOR][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Holmes - US Edition 5th Print 1980) w/Dice Chit Card - due to short supplies of polyhedral dice TSR shipped chit cards instead.[/COLOR][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Moldvay - US 8th Print 1981) [/COLOR][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (Moldvay - US 9th Print 1982) [/COLOR][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set (Moldvay - US 1st Print 1981)[/COLOR][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons Expert Set (Moldvay - US 2nd Print 1982)[/COLOR][*][COLOR=#800000]Dungeons & Dragons 40th Anniversary Reprint of the original woodgrain box Set with rulebooks I-III and supplements IV-VII (1st print 2014)[/COLOR][/LIST]
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The two little miniature sets are part of the D&D 25th Anniversary celebration reprints of some of the D&D and AD&D 1e classics of that time. I have several of the box sets and nearly all the reprints of the AD&D rulebooks. These are really great items, 1/7th of an inch in scale but all complete and readable (albeit with a magnifying glass), even the maps are all included for the adventure sets.
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[COLOR=#800000]You can just see the top of my AD&D 1e rulebook collection but you will have to wait for that one as we have a couple of other shelves to go before we get to AD&D. 1e :)[/COLOR]

[COLOR=#800000]Right, I've shown you mine, now you show me yours ;p[/COLOR]

Hi Folks, apologies for not having posted sooner. I haven't been able to catch up with RPGs, FantasyGrounds or gaming in general since earlier this year. Found a rare 15mins and figured I'd swing by just to say Hi and to let all those who have been trying to contact me know that I'll be back shortly and will get around to contacting each of you individually. Bare with me.

A lot has changed since the start of this year, new FG forum as well as an alpha release of 3.0! I like the new forum and features :) I thought I'd kill two goblins with one stone and make this my first Blog post.

Cudos to Doug and moon_wizard.

Catch you all soon.

DrZ.