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Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 12:39 pm 
 

Hello there.

Any have any info on D&D Tea Towels from the 1980s?

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Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 12:39 pm 
 

Who made them ? US only ? others available?  

never seen anything like this before - and friend just sent me an image found online...


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Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 3:54 pm 
 

That is one of the three beach towels.


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Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 6:34 pm 
 

Here are all 3 of them:

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Post Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 8:05 pm 
 

chromaticknight wrote in D&D Tea Towel 1982?:Here are all 3 of them:


Love that stuff.

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Post Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2020 3:20 pm 
 

And it's a playable dungeon if you don't mind a Red Dragon* in the first room!  8)

* or Beholder, depending on whether you start where the characters are or at the door at the bottom


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Post Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2020 3:31 pm 
 

ExTSR indicated here that the Blue Dragon artwork is by David Sutherland, and to me it looks like all three designs are his works.

There are more pictures in this blog post: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Beach Towels (1982) | 2 Warps to Neptune

Looks like the dungeon one doesn't photograph well close up (the towel material makes the images fuzzy).

If anyone has a better picture of the Purple Worm towel, I'd love to see it.


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Post Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2020 12:03 am 
 

Here are a couple better (I hope) pictures:

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