Pyat and the Time Portal

[pyat]

It occurs to me that I should not have been so pleased and surprised by the reemergence of the old gaming materials at Hamilton Hobby Specialities. You see, Hamilton actually has a dedicated gaming store that always has ancient stuff on display. I've written about it before. J&F Hobbies in the west end is like a dusty photograph of a game store, circa 1992. I went there today and picked up three "Monstrous Compendium" packs for $15. The owner, John, has mint condition 2nd ed corebooks and supplements on the shelves, gathering dust. Lots of dust.


He has a little alley filled with lead minis.


The store has moved into progressively smaller digs three times in the eleven years I've known of its existence. In 1998 he was in a very expansive (and cluttered) storefront, and seemed to be doing a fairly brisk business in Warhammer minis. I don't think that's true anymore, as all the minis seem to be a closed off little aisle and don't seem to move. Still, there has been some improvement. He's sharing the space with a model airplane seller now, and he sold all his stacks of used books to a woman who runs a bookstore, so the place is looking much less shabby and crowded than it did last time I visited.

It occurs to me that J&F Hobbies has everything I need to start an AD&D game in any setting. While I was thinking of using Greyhawk, J&F seems to have the needed books for any of the other AD&D settings, with the exception of Maztica.

So, tell me, Internet, if you were silly enough as to go back and run an AD&D game...

[Poll #1366176]

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

The first two he listed are actually the same setting. It's just, one is the outside of the planet, and one is the inside. The inside is full of ancient lost civilizations preserved by the gods and immortals of that setting. During the timeline of the setting, one of the major continents on the outside gets wiped out by a magical nuke and gets teleported into the inside world, where it becomes a floating continent.

Spelljammer... Well...



Actually some of the books I have mention Spelljammer in regards to Mystarra. The planet is roughly Torus shaped, and has holes at the poles. If you have a spelljamming vessel you can see the holes from space, and though it's dangerous you can also fly through them.