So, it's late 1982 and I'd been gaming for a while now. Only a few months in reality, but it felt like an eternity. White Dwarf in GW Sheffield at the time was still on the top shelf and having one day looked left and right, somewhat furtively, I'd grabbed White Dwarf 35, with it's fantastic cover by Les Edwards, the Green Horizon scenario for Traveller and Necromancer character class for AD&D. And I was blown away... But, let's go back a little way and go into town with my parents one Saturday morning early in 82 - sometimes, I was required to go with them rather than out with my mates, or maybe I was angling for some consumer booty - and the obligatory sausage sandwich in Woolco on the Gallery, a few doors up from Hopkinson's Toys. Having finished mine, I excused myself and went out of the back doors of Woolies and jogged down to Hopkinsons, where on a bottom shelf, was a pristine Holmes edition of Basic D&D for £2.99. At the time I received £3 per we...