Posted on 03/04/2008 10:59:48 AM PST by steve-b
You've been exposed as a non-loser, Borges.
Proud to say I never knew anyone who played that.
Can I ever again look anyone in the eye? (Except the Cyclops)
RIP
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Ran out of hit points...
I played that game when I was a kid. Loved it till I discovered girls were alot more fun!
I first got into D&D when I talked my mom into taking me to a comic book convention at the University, and there were D&D tournaments going on in various rooms— I was probably about 11 years old. It was an amazing thing, I was fascinated by the concept of role playing games.
I was entangled in geekdom for the next 7 years or so, until I met that girl, you know, THAT girl. That one girl, and I’m not talking about the one I married- cuz no way would I have ever married that crazy chick.
I guess Gary finally got pwned by the great Dungeonmaster in the sky. He’s probably off to some astral plane of one sort or another by now...
I meant n00b in a gamer sense. ;-)
D’oh!
18 sided? I recall the 4, 6, 10, 12, and 20 sided, but I don’t recall any 18 sided dice.
Is my memory failing?!? ;-P
3d6 ... get with the program kids.
The D&D name is still out there as the flagship of what’s called the “d20” system, I think it’s Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast that publish it now. Gygax hasn’t been involved with D&D for a long time, since I think the days of the Advanced D&D Second Edition in the ‘80s. In a way, that’s good; the newer gaming systems are much easier to learn and use and much more streamlined. Original D&D and AD&D just kept having stuff grafted on—I think Gygax never met a weird, arcane percentile-dice table that he didn’t want to include in a rulebook somewhere.
Yes, I’m a loser, started playing in 1978 when I was 12. Somewhere buried at home are my original first edition AD&D books from Christmas 1979, as well as a fairly rare first edition first printing “Deities and Demigods” sourcebook that got pulled off the shelves because of copyright infringement against the estate of the guy that wrote the Grey Mouser books.
Between trading card games and online RPGs, dice-and-paper RPGs are pretty much gone. But ah, the geeky memories of all-nighters, me being the DM and running my friends through Hall of the Fire Giant King. Thanks, Gary.
}:-)4
All but the ten sided are perfect shapes.
All I remember from D&D is the math and vocab skills that were required!
hey dungeon master
Heh, yeah, what you said.
Yep had that one!
I had about everything you could imagine in the D&D world most of the Modules just about all of the books enough Dice to sink a battle ship. As well as just about the whole line of boxed sets. And a boat load of lead figures from Ral Partha.
I think maybe out of all of it I bought 2 or 3 books and a module or two and a few figures. All the rest were gifts from family and friends.
About 5 years back I sold it all to one guy who had more money than sense. I had my collection out in my gaming shop and he wanted to buy some of the items I told him they were not for sale and he kept raising the ante. I thought OK lets just see. I said its all or nothing and I want 1500 bucks figuring that would be the end of it. Well it was. He whipped out a credit card and said "help me carry it to my car."
I did. hehehe
I recall the story where it was a small garage operation until it was featured on the 700 Club and so many orders came in they had to move to a factory.
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