if you are between me and a copy of this, get out of the way. I would kill many, many things for it, mostly undead and extraplanar beings, but still. I still don't know what happened to my original copy, but I would kill for that thing again.
I was hypnotized and still, 36 years later, have not completely recovered. Dumb, really, though the line illustrations remain among some of the best in gaming history, so far as I'm concerned. In hindsight, it is pedantic, sterilized, and cliched.
This book, in effect, changed my life forever and made it richer. It was my Book of Genesis for eight years, age 10-18, and beyond. Before I ran into a copy of The Hobbit, before I discovered Saberhagen's Berserker series, before I even read my first Conan book ( but not before I "read" The Savage Sword of Conan or Mechanismo), The Official Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Coloring Album captured my imagination and launched me into countless wasted hours of AD&D punctuated by some good reading of actual books. It was my Book of Genesis for eight ye This is the one that started it all for me. This is the one that started it all for me.