Post by Koren n'Rhys on Mar 10, 2013 7:59:14 GMT -6
or, So Close I Could Taste It.
Lying in bed last night reading Playing at the World, which I finally picked up from Amazon. Show my wife a pic of the OD&D box and mention they're re-releasing it in the fall (hint, hint). She has patiently put up with my gaming for over 25 years but won't play. She just doesn't get it - the whole how do you win thing, mostly.
After seeing the picture, she says "I think I had that back when I was a kid." Um, what? "Yeah, I'd take it out and look through the books and could never figure out why there was no board or pieces, and put it back again. I think we finally sold it at a garage sale."
Really, a white box? She thinks it was late 70's, so we go back and forth trying to narrow down the time frame, cause it could be Moldvay, or maybe Holmes, I think. Big blue book with a dragon? Nope, she's pretty sure it was that one in the pic, it was a small box, like Password was. Sigh.
In 25 years, with me gaming the whole time she has NEVER mentioned she had a D&D set when she was a kid. It must have been gone by college, because we've been together since then, and I'm sure she (or her parents) would have given it to me, or I'd have seen it on their bookshelf with all the other games. I had no idea what OD&D was back then, but I'd certainly have seen that old version and been intrigued.
Such is life...
Lying in bed last night reading Playing at the World, which I finally picked up from Amazon. Show my wife a pic of the OD&D box and mention they're re-releasing it in the fall (hint, hint). She has patiently put up with my gaming for over 25 years but won't play. She just doesn't get it - the whole how do you win thing, mostly.
After seeing the picture, she says "I think I had that back when I was a kid." Um, what? "Yeah, I'd take it out and look through the books and could never figure out why there was no board or pieces, and put it back again. I think we finally sold it at a garage sale."
Really, a white box? She thinks it was late 70's, so we go back and forth trying to narrow down the time frame, cause it could be Moldvay, or maybe Holmes, I think. Big blue book with a dragon? Nope, she's pretty sure it was that one in the pic, it was a small box, like Password was. Sigh.
In 25 years, with me gaming the whole time she has NEVER mentioned she had a D&D set when she was a kid. It must have been gone by college, because we've been together since then, and I'm sure she (or her parents) would have given it to me, or I'd have seen it on their bookshelf with all the other games. I had no idea what OD&D was back then, but I'd certainly have seen that old version and been intrigued.
Such is life...
