Pen & Paper RPG players... - ID: 291
FORUM: Gossip - The rusty dagger tavern
This topic was started by Cathedral on 02/01/2012, 02:28:17
Probably showing my age here...but how many Pen & Paper RPG fans do we have here?
I started out like most people my age, with old school D&D and wound up spending a small fortune on AD&D. Haven't played those types of games in ages and had sold all the AD&D stuff...but for some reason (nostalgia) I started collecting the old D&D/AD&D modules from the 70's and 80's and have about a 100 or so. Had also gotten into Steve Jackson Games with Cars Wars & Ogre, then there was also Battletech, Traveler, Twilight: 2000, Star Frontiers, Gamma World, Aftermath, Palladium Books TMNT/AtB (way back before it was commercialized into lunacy) & Palladium Books Robotech.
I remember the first time I was exposed to the world of dungeons&dragons :) it was sometime in to 1990s(that whole decade was a bit hazey for me). I was a drug dealer back then,Cannabis and LSD to be precise. My roommate convinced me to drive way out in the country side of very rural Kansas to deliver the fore mentioned compounds to a group of his family members. When we arrived they all were sitting around a table playing some sort of board game(on closer inspection I noticed the now familiar painted pewter game pieces of warriors and monsters of all kinds) drinking beer and covorting rather loudly. I soon realized that this was the game D&D that I had heard of. I also heard that's what nerds and geeks played in spare time,that and watch star trek. They invited me to stay and start a character but the thought of doing such a nerdy thing turned me off back then so I had one beer and handed over the weed and the acid and went on my marry way.... In retrospect I wish I had stayed and played. Can you imagine how crazy that game must have turned out considering the amount of drugs and booze they had ingested :oops: :shock: . Now I find it almost impossible to find other who want to play a nice long D&D session. Hinde site is always 20/20 I guess.
Yeah, it definitely depended on the culture you found yourself in. Where I went to grade school in the 80s it had the stigma of being what caused kids to turn to witchcraft, satanism or suicide. It was all over the talk shows at the time...and being in a Catholic school at the time that was harping on the evils of D&D it was only natural that we wanted to try it (along with all the other fun stuff they told us not to try). When I moved to a rural, farming, and cattle area I decided to lock it away because in the 90's that's when people figured out it was harmless and it took on the nerd stigma. Funny thing was, I wound up finding out about half my class was playing it because the only thing to do in the harsh winters was smoke dope, chase girls, and play D&D.
D&d, ad&d yes yes they are quite different.. Earthdawn, call of cthulhu, vampire the masq, mage the acessension, werewolf etc etc, dc heroes, marvel heroes, middle earth role playing, runequest, SLA industries, tmnt, battletech, im sure e list goes on.. Ive played many independant as well as major game systems, me and mine have written more than our fair share of them also..
Even LARPd alot in my time..
Titansiege
"geek from the ages..."
