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...

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Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know it is. Similarly, Al-Qadim, Kara-Tur, and Maztica are all part of the "Forgotten Realms" world, but are nonetheless different settings.

[relee.livejournal.com]

I knew Kara-Tur and Maztica were part of the Forgotten Realms but not Al-Qadim. Is Al-Qadim based in Calimshan or is it somewhere else? I mean, Calimshan is all about arabian nights, so it would be odd for them to have a second arabian nights region somewhere else.

I really like the Forgotten Realms. It has this rich history of being several very awesome places, so there's lots of ancient ruins and ancienter ruins and even ancienter ruins. They've got every culture that was ever on earth and a bunch of fantasy ones and even a few original ones.

Though as was complaining a month or so ago, they ruined that with the latest version. ^.^;;

You could base an entire campaign in a single country on that world and it would still be awesome. <3