A treasure trove of nostalgia.

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Dice Men is rammed with memorabilia - and rare, valuable memorabilia at that.

A photo of the Dice Men Games Workshop history book. It’s red with two characters fantastical characters playing dice on the front cover. It’s the classic Ian McCaig illustration that was on early Games Workshop bags.

How about pictures of the first Dungeons & Dragons printing runs ever to hit the UK?

They’re here - check.

Photos of the very first Warhammer-like miniatures the company made: check.

Bertie’s hand, and adjoining arm, holding up the Dice Men Games Workshop history book. It’s bright red with two characters - one from fantasy, one from sci-fi - playing a game of dice together. Bertie’s flat can be pictured in the background. It has some plants in it.

This is a treasure trove of nostalgia.

They didn’t come from anywhere remarkable.

But with passion and hard work and a liberal dose of luck, they achieved something historic.

A photo of the Dice Men Games Workshop hardback book, showing a page of Fighting Fantasy memorabilia.

I can’t imagine a gaming world without them.

Ian Livingstone’s background with print media (White Dwarf) also shows in abundance.

This book is beautifully laid out.

A photo of the Dice Men Games Workshop book, showing a double-page photo of the original Games Workshop shop opening.

The pages are designed with care and always with artwork or pictures or something to look at.

I don’t think there’s a single page of text on its own.

Dice Men is everything a coffee table book should be.

A photo of the Dice Men Games Workshop book, showing two pages of original Dungeons & Dragons paraphernalia, including a copy of Advanced D&D signed by co-creator Gary Gygax.

After all, Gygax and D&D were an enormous part of this early-life Games Workshop tale.

Without D&D, things would have been very different.

you could buy copies directly from there, or from other bookshops, now.

A photo of the Dice Men Games Workshop book, showing the original flat where Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson and John Peake lived, that people would turn up to looking for a shop, only there was none.