Why goldenrod?

[Black Vulmea]

Does anyone know why the AD&D character sheets were printed on goldenrod paper? I'm guessing it was to discourage photocopying.

[James Maliszewski]

I'm guessing it was to discourage photocopying.

That seems the most logical answer. Lots of official forms back in the 70s and even into the 90s were printed on colored sheets that made it difficult to reproduce them.

[deathanddrek]

I recently bought a pack of goldenrod paper for character sheets--but I'm just a try-hard.

Nostalgia, for me, is photocopying my own character sheets that I'd typed up on a typewriter, Commodore 64 or Commodore Amiga 500.

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[thedungeondelver]

Does anyone know why the AD&D character sheets were printed on goldenrod paper? I'm guessing it was to discourage photocopying.

Indeed; early photocopy machines were easily defeated by TSR's "non-repro" blue coloring of its dungeon maps. Although I'm told a yellow filter put over the map (thus turning the image green) defeated this "copy protection".

[MojoBob]

Does anyone know why the AD&D character sheets were printed on goldenrod paper? I'm guessing it was to discourage photocopying.

Indeed; early photocopy machines were easily defeated by TSR's "non-repro" blue coloring of its dungeon maps. Although I'm told a yellow filter put over the map (thus turning the image green) defeated this "copy protection".

DRM never works.

[Random]

DRM never works.

This isn't digital.

[thedungeondelver]

DRM never works.

This isn't digital.

"Dungeon Rights Management".

[foxroe]

That's why I refuse to use iTombs.

[thedungeondelver]

That's why I refuse to use iTombs.

Let's hear it - three groans for Foxroe!