From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
It is the only D&D book I have never sold.
ReplyDeleteThe highest praise!
ReplyDeleteJust looking at these pictures makes me want to try a D&D megadungeon again, which is the very definition of insanity.
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$100 bucks...
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Casey G. I think I got mine for about $25, but one of the pages was partially colored-in. That was about eight years ago. Still worth it, since I couldn't find the one my siblings had in the early 80s. (I'm sure we didn't get rid of it, so my brother might have it.)
ReplyDeleteThis was my introduction to D&D, age 5!
ReplyDeleteWish it was a POD in DriveThru
ReplyDeleteThat Beholder should disintegrate the bridge.
ReplyDeleteThat would be my next action.
ReplyDeleteHow many kids were traumatized by the bulette gobbling up the horsey?
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