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Post by Merctime on Dec 5, 2014 22:23:19 GMT -6
And gave him one of my PoD Delving Deeper copies  We used to game alot when we were kids, over 20 years ago. Ran into him by chance today. Talked for like 2 hours about 'the good old days', and I told him about my favorite game and what a 'retro clone' is. He had no idea what Delving Deeper, or say Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerors of Hyperborea were. Now he does. Now he'd like to try them with me. Looking forward to it! I'm going to try, in the next month or so (he's about an hour and a half from me) to arrange a game with him and some people he knows. They still game some; Lots of 'older' games as well as 3.5 (which I detest; He says it's 'ok' but he likes the TSR D&D better). I'm hoping that DD will be a smash, and that the old style of play will be loved by all. We shall see. Going to email them all Philotomy's Musings and have some further discussion (we covered alot tonight, though) just as a primer to help understand why some of the 'AD&D-isms' aren't found in the DD copy I gave him. I'll let you guys know how it goes  Fight On! ((posted over at Immersive Ink forums, too)) |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2014 9:43:22 GMT -6
:)Let us know how it does!  |
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Post by dizzysaxophone on Dec 6, 2014 15:17:10 GMT -6
Awesome Merctime! He should love it!
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Post by archersix on Dec 6, 2014 19:54:55 GMT -6
Cool. I ran into one of my highschool buddies a few years ago. Now he's a regular at our game nights!
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Post by tetramorph on Dec 6, 2014 20:41:54 GMT -6
Very cool!
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Post by rastusburne on Jan 1, 2015 6:11:19 GMT -6
I still play with my high school buddies. They make the best gaming companions for some reason. When you've killed that many orcs and goblins together, you just have an understanding you know...
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Post by eldrad on Jan 1, 2015 8:30:01 GMT -6
One of my old gaming buddies says he has no need for fantasy role playing adventures as he has plenty of real world action. Blah to him!
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jan 2, 2015 22:49:36 GMT -6
One of my old gaming buddies says he has no need for fantasy role playing adventures as he has plenty of real world action. Blah to him! Where's the fun in that?!  |
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Post by scalydemon on Jan 2, 2015 23:53:47 GMT -6
One of my old gaming buddies says he has no need for fantasy role playing adventures as he has plenty of real world action. Blah to him! Too busy watching 'King of Queens' re-runs or something. Yeah, screw that dude I went to high school 2000 miles from where I currently live, no chance of bumping into any of em' |
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Post by xerxez on Jan 3, 2015 1:33:25 GMT -6
I game with one of the guys I gamed with back in Junior High and High School. He's a good friend.
Our core group consisted of three of us with the odd traveller when we were lucky. We took turns DMing. The guy Im speaking of had a shed in his back yard with a loft. We'd go up there with our D&D books and dice and paper along with enough snacks to induce a sugar coma and we'd start at 7:00 pm and by a hanging light we'd play until dawn of the next day. We went thru all the old TSR Greyhawk modules and plenty of homespun stuff. We occasionally snuck a few beers up there as well...
We'd actually had some falling out times when I moved away and our friendship seemed to have ended abruptly. But these many years later I moved back to the area, asked once or twice about him from some folks and heard that he worked out at a place here in town. Even though we had been kids I wondered if he might still have hard feelings about stuff and didn't try to look him up. So I go on Meetup and start advertising for some gamers and I get a call from a nice fellow who wants to game. In the course of chatting I ask what he does and tells me he works at the same place I'd heard my friend worked at. Its pretty big, several hundred employees, but on the off chance I drop my old friends name and ask him if he knows him.
"Know him?" he says. "Yeah I know him. He's my best friend. We game together all the time and he and his wife catch football games with me and my wife at the stadium." I'm dumbfounded and explain my relation to our mutual friend and he gives me his number. I call him up and get an answering machine and I said something like, "Man, I would really love to see you again buddy and for my part, I am sorry about all the bull that went down. Heres my number, give me a call. If not, take care man."
Well, that was five years back and we have gamed together pretty regularly and hung out alot. We've become better friends than ever and when I went through my divorce three years back he was one of my really good friends through it all. So you never know how things turn out.
Its funny, he went through a phase like me where he quit gaming for a long while, for different reasons than myself. Sold all his stuff. But it gets ahold of you and never lets go, those memories, those glorious fabulous adventures. It's like we were really there! To this day we will laugh and reminisce about those old games and the funny and strange things that happened in them. He likes telling people what a hardnosed DM I was and nowadays he says he can't believe how nice I am to players. He cracks jokes about this all the time at our games when I am too nice to players when they should probably be getting the blue bolts from the heavens that Gary Gygax mentioned. My friend actually corresponded with Gary once and received a personal reply! He got to tell Gary what the game had meant to him, how it had led him into his life of reading and the study of history, and so on. And he still has Gary's reply, which was short but warm and gracious. It means alot to him, and I can tell you that he has taught his boys to play using the 1st Edition books from AD&D--we played alot of basic too back in the day and especially loved the Holmes blue book but we never had laid eyes upon the White Box or the LBB's and if the Internet had not come about, we likely never would have, but that was before our time. The Moldvay redbook was popular then and we ran many a basic and expert game. Not to mention Gamma World, Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and just about every game that came out in the eighties at one time or another, but we always went back to AD&D or Basic and expert.
Our third old time shed game regular lives one state over and we have all met up but have not gamed together yet but we hope to and we want to use our old original characters.
Anyway, D&D really freakin was a huge part of our lives and links us to this day.
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Post by rastusburne on Jan 3, 2015 11:47:04 GMT -6
Very cool story Xerxez!
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