Nostalgia or midlife crisis?

[The Feral Slasher]

My midlife crisis/nostalga kick is that I'm about to run an old school D&D campaign for my kids and their friends, Village of Hommlet/Temple of Elemental Evil/Vault of the Drow for those of you for which that means anything, certainly gives me some stuff to work on when I'm bored. Tavern brawl meetup of course to kick things off!

The Village of Hommlet was the scene of an epic battle that created a rift between my brother, his friends and me. Seriously a thief should not be able to read scrolls and create a simulacrum. It's just not right.

[The Feral Slasher]

The Village of Hommlet was the scene of an epic battle that created a rift between my brother, his friends and me. Seriously a thief should not be able to read scrolls and create a simulacrum. It's just not right.

And don't get me started on the Dopplegangers and reincarnation...

[mjl]

The Village of Hommlet was the scene of an epic battle that created a rift between my brother, his friends and me. Seriously a thief should not be able to read scrolls and create a simulacrum. It's just not right.

My favorite memory from D&D:

A friend decided to run a game with about ten PCs. Many of us didn't really know the others initially, and we didn't share our character sheets in advance. So we meet up with "everyone is in an inn, and a bad guy poofs in and curses everyone in the inn and kills most of the NPCs, you better join up and get him!"

I was playing a gnome thief. I didn't tell anyone that I was actually a thief/illusionist. I stole a fairly minor magic item from a shop and planted it in the belongings of the most gullible-looking person in the party. I then went to the temple where we were going to meet up the next day and set up a Magic Mouth that told that person that he was the chosen of the gods, I was his emissary and he should listen to me, and his reward would be found in his bags.

It made the rest of the game pretty entertaining. The DM was good about not ratting me out and I was able to keep my spellcasting secret for quite a long time.

[Judge Jude]

me too! geesh, I gotta buy that whole set (it will be all 2017 players, of course, but in that design)

dslaw, I bought some today. geesh, 9 cards for $2.99?

but damn, they are the spitting image. recall that the first series of that year had a slightly different border. so do some of these. the "Leaders" cards again list dozens of players on the back. even the inserts look the same (there was one modern "New Age" insert that just looks weird, but oh well). wow, just noticed that the All-Star card backs are puzzle pieces. forgot about that!

[swampdragon]

dslaw, I bought some today. geesh, 8 cards for $2.99?

but damn, they are the spitting image. recall that the first series of that year had a slightly different border. so do some of these. the "Leaders" cards again list dozens of players on the back. even the inserts look the same (there was one modern "New Age" insert that just looks weird, but oh well). wow, just noticed that the All-Star card backs are puzzle pieces. forgot about that!

What year do they look like

[Judge Jude]

1968

now I remember that a pack that year was 5 cards for 5 cents, but the nice lady at Liggett's Drugstore gave us a free 6th pack if we came up with a quarter - which few of us 6 and 7 year olds could often muster.

a White Sox rookie whose autograph ends in "a" is LINE OUT in that card game insert.

[swampdragon]

Those are ugly. I first started with the low number black outline 1970 cards. Then I got a lot of 71s and 72s

[dslaw]

1968

now I remember that a pack that year was 5 cards for 5 cents, but the nice lady at Liggett's Drugstore gave us a free 6th pack if we came up with a quarter - which few of us 6 and 7 year olds could often muster.

a White Sox rookie whose autograph ends in "a" is LINE OUT in that card game insert.

I bought a box online, it comes with one original 1968 card in every box. I got Rick Monday. That will be worth a lot of $$. I remember a pack being 10 cents. VA charged sales tax starting at .15 so we would buy 1 pack three times so it cost .30 instead of .31. I think the store owner hated us. I like the League Leaders cards. The list is so long that some guy who hit 8 HRs can always say he was listed as a league leader that year.

[Judge Jude]

I bought a box online, it comes with one original 1968 card in every box. I got Rick Monday. That will be worth a lot of $$. I remember a pack being 10 cents. VA charged sales tax starting at .15 so we would buy 1 pack three times so it cost .30 instead of .31. I think the store owner hated us. I like the League Leaders cards. The list is so long that some guy who hit 8 HRs can always say he was listed as a league leader that year.

I got the AL HR leaders. the fewest on the card now is 21 (!). I think you got hammered on the price. But inflation arrived by the next year, I think....