AD&D T-Shirts

These t-shirts are probably fairly obscure references: the AD&D shirts. AD&D, in the gaming world, stands for “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons” — the D&D of the 80s and 90s. AD&D in the insurance world, stands for “Accidental Death & Dismemberment” — you probably have this coverage in your own insurance policy, right now.

Old-school AD&D has a reputation, (of arguable accuracy), of being especially deadly & dangerous to the characters in the game. (Not to the players of the game!) So . . . well, I hope the play on words is obvious at this point. (Also, Gary Gygax, the creator of AD&D, once worked for an insurance company, and said that he was amused that the company offered AD&D coverage. But probably only real fanboys know this little piece of trivia.)

The text on the shirts uses the same font and style as the old AD&D game books. The first shirt below is “early” AD&D, and the second shirt is “late” AD&D. My fellow gamer geeks who played AD&D back in the day will surely immediately recognize this. I’m actually pretty proud of these designs even though they’re for a very small demographic.

Accidental Death & Dismemberment

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