ok, nothing todo with the art but its about the system

ewww ad&d

lemmie guess, pathfinder fan?

actually no, im a fan of 3.5

Ahhh 3rd and 3.5 wre the first systems i owned. Still, where 2nd edition was the first one i played I've got really fond memories of it

ah ok, ive played 3.5, cypher, gurps (for one game before i was broken), 5 and hc svert dracones

I've never played cypher or the hc svert dracones

Cypher is kinda boring imho, hsd is really fun and horrible at the same time

LOL horrible and fun. Sounds like a family reunion to me lol

I didn't know they published a coloring book. XD That's pretty nifty. Also that's some good coloring. I realized I wasn't fit for art when I couldn't color in the lines during school. :P

Yeah they did several of em, this one was more of a mini adventure where the other one i've seen is kind of a AD&D for Dummies to explain races, classes and alignments. Here's the url if you're interested. http://monsterbrains.blogspot.ca/20.....geons-and.html

Also i couln't do coloring in school either, i never wanted to stay with what i was presented with and tried to add to it.

Wow! That's pretty cool! I didn't get into tabletop gaming until the early 2000's, but I do enjoy AD&D from a historical perspective. Looking at these pages, I can only wonder what parents thought who had no idea what it was and that they're children were playing it, lol.

Hmm, maybe that's what makes an artist an artist, eh? I found my own creative outlet in writing, but that wasn't until high school.

Sweet. I've always said that art comes in many forms, you just have to find the one that's right for you.

As for the coloring book, yeah i can only imagine peole trying to defend the passtime of table top RPGs in the time of the Satanic Panic of the 70s-90s when one of the sections of the coloring book aimed at kids is named "Tiamat, the queen of hell"

True that, and art comes in many forms!

Same here. I actually have an older guy in my local D&D group who's in his 50's and he's talked about how he had to hide his D&D books in the 80's because his mother would freak out when the topic of it was brought up and would say things like "as god as my witness, not in this house". So he had to live through that crazy time. It's pretty interesting hearing about it from someone who saw the panic firsthand.

LOL i grew up in that period. When my parents split up i was living with my mom and she was cool with us playing AD&D since she knew we were all already reading Stephen King and Dean Koontez, playing Mortal Kombat, watching horror movies etc and none of those things had turned us into violent psychopaths.

My old man on the other hand wouldn't hear of it. He found my brother's character sheets one time and was about to rip them to confetti when he realized that I'd been using the game to encourage him to read more. (At the time he was in grade 9 with a grade 3 reading level and had been told by his teachers "Give up, you'll never improve. Your family doesn't have the money to make a difference.). After reading over the sheets and seeing how my brother was learning about how dark ages society worked, history and improving his literacy skills to the point that within a year he was reading my used university texts he was suddenly ok with the whole thing.

Phew, bullet dodged there in the end. I think much like your old man, once people saw that it was all overblown they calmed down about it. We've come a pretty long way for tabletop RPGs to be as popular as they are these days.

Yeah. now the funny thing is that he looked over the sourcebooks then turned to me in total disgust and says "There's nothing in it about the island of the racing sun. That's garbage."

I was floored! I had no idea he'd read the Oddsey or that he was that familiar with it.

Hah! That's a great moment to be sure. =P

Wait...What?!?!?!?! Let me see if i got this right....D&D and a coloring book?

yes and this wasn't the only one. Where this one was an adventure the other one was a "abc's" approach to the game explaining classes, alignments, races and the like.

NEAT.