Xaxaxe wrote:Blackmoor wrote:
These are still available at my local game shop and in good quantity. Rare, I don't think so!!
Agreed: not rare. Although I would say that they are more difficult to find than they were, say, 12 or 18 months ago. Why, I don't know. Still, they're findable, especially with a good Auction Sieve search.
For those who might be interested: yes, they are kind of fun; no, you couldn't possibly actually play with them. The eyestrain would be tremendous.
I'm showing off my Uber-Geekiness, but....
My 2 brothers and I went camping this spring. Of course, being in the great outdoors is NO deterent to gaming, but who wants to haul all the books, dice, paper, modules, etc etc. Not enough room in the car for the tent, supplies, four guys and all my gaming stuff....or so they think!
So the first night we are sitting around the lantern and picnic table drinking beer with my brothers and my friend and I'm waiting for the inevitable "Man, too bad we don't have our D&D stuff out here..." I spring into action.
And then I whip out the miniature rulebooks, along with the miniature boxed sets of Undermountain and Menzoberranzan. I have dice, pencils and graph paper. Oh yeh, and a MAGNIFIYING GLASS!
Game ON. We know the rules well enough by now that we only have to refer to the rulebooks in case of dire necessity or arguement. The only problem is that the only real adventure I have is UM, which is a gigantic sprawling monster of an adventure, and not really set up for easy
DMIng (although a favorite of mine and my little group). In retrospect, maybe one of the Dragonlance modules would have been better. We quickly find out that although the magnifiying glass works great for our purposes, it's just too damn dark to read anything that small by lantern light.
But, we rolled up characters, passed around the books and magnifying glass, had some laughs, and managed to get a few evenings of dungeon delving out of the entire mess. So, we have proven you actually CAN use these microscopic mutants to game with if you don't have to refer to the books often, you have a good magnifying glass and light source, and a knowledge of the rules that allows you not to have to refer to them very often. Not an experiment I would try often, but if you just HAVE to game and you only have a shoebox worth of room to store everything in.....
Mike B.
