Share your Dungeons and Dragons memories.

[EmergencyIan]

I had friends who loved D&D. For whatever reason, I could never really get interested in it or any other role playing games.

However, I did watch the cartoon series. I had a D&D game on Intellevision that was fun. And, I had at least one of the action figures. He had blonde hair.

- Ian

[Werewolf]

Classic TSR D&D commercial.

Unfortunately, I don't think LJN made a commercial for the AD&D toy line.

[Falstaff13]

I have a memory of one for the LJN line--I remember something that revealed the Fortress of Fangs had a place where the walls closed in (a feature I thought was really cool). If not a commercial, I guess it could have been some profile of toys, but my memory has it as an ad.

[Sideshow Spock]

My friends and I played D&D for several years as we transitioned from middle to high school circa 1982-85. A couple of my friends were more hardcore than the others (one being the DM), and we mostly relied on them for having all the manuals, modules, and accessories. They were good times. Some modules we took more seriously than others, often our games would devolve into a lot of silliness (or controversy), especially if our characters weren't faring well.

All the manuals and modules ended up with me. I ended up selling over 50 of the modules on eBay in a lot a couple years ago (which included several Gygax originals), and making almost $400 on the sale. I kept a few that I remembered more distinctly and had some sentimentality.

[Figuremod73]

I knew a few people who were into a different type of role playing system called G.U.R.P.S. (Generic universal roleplaying system), supposively, you could mix different genres more easily. They use to talk about it all the time at lunch in school.
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[Random Axe]

From the age of ten I was a devoted player, so in other words I was a complete geek from the age of ten onto adulthood. I can't imagine anything in my life that inspired my inagination more than this game, and it also spawned a bunch of other, homemade games we used as well. By the mid 90's we switched to Middle Earth rules, which are far more realistic. I have nothing but fond memories of those times.