There’s dedication and there is dedication and then there is the level of dedication suggested by some of the following adverts, from early 1980s Dragon magazines:
Or, if you are inclined toward playing a warrior:
I particularly love how all you buy there is an instruction book. I wonder how many people actually responded to this ad and actually made armour?
For those perhaps not as devoted to role playing, they could still show off their fandom thus:
Or via new-fangled (at the time) ‘holographic’ technology:
As with all of these entries, I leave the best for last…
Suppose you didn’t want to dress as a thief, or wizard or even warrior. Suppose you’re true calling was something else. Something like this…
“Wear this life-like dragon mask to all special occasions” indeed 🙂